Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford has revisited comments he made in 2019 predicting that Steam could be a “dying store” by now, following the news that Borderlands 4 will launch on the platform.
In 2019, the last Borderlands game, Borderlands 3, was announced as an Epic Games Store exclusive – a controversial decision at the time, due to Steam’s stranglehold on PC game sales.
In a lengthy Twitter thread following the 2019 news, Pitchford had claimed that “when we look back at Steam in five or ten years, it may look like a dying store”, and pointed to Epic’s significant investment into its own platform, and more attractive commercial terms.
