o massively successful games each accompanied by slews of downloadable content left little doubt that there would be more Borderlands, even after Gearbox Software President Randy Pitchford said that his studio was not working on Borderlands 3. As it turns out, another studio (2K Australia) actually is working on a third Borderlands game, but you know, to-may-to, to-mah-to. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel will insinuate itself between Borderlands and Borderlands 2 on the series' timeline, sending four new vault hunters into space to battle low gravity, zero atmosphere, and raving, psychotic astronauts.
In a meeting where Pitchford and 2K Australia General Manager Tony Lawrence revealed the new game, they were quick to explain the ways that The Pre-Sequel is not what they imagine Borderlands 3 to be. That would be a next-gen experience built on a new engine (though they clarified that no such game is in development); The Pre-Sequel is built on the Borderlands 2 engine and is slated to release for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC only. According to Pitchford, Borderlands 2 has sold more copies than Xbox Ones and PlayStation 4s combined, so of all these potential Borderlands fans, only a fraction of them have new consoles.