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Borderlands 3 – Microsoft Store page hints at cross-platform co-op between PC and Xbox One

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Borderlands 3 has just been officially revealed and it appears that this new looter shooter will support cross-platform play between the Xbox One and the PC versions. This is hinted at the game’s Microsoft Store page which currently includes the “Cross-platform co-op” tag.

In Borderlands 3, players can play solo or with friends to take on insane enemies, score loads of loot and save your home from the most ruthless cult leaders in the galaxy.

Although Gearbox and 2K Games have not announced official support for cross-platform play, Randy Pitchford hinted at this a couple of days ago.

Pitchford claimed on April 2nd that Gearbox has a very keen interest in cross-platform play and from the looks of it, Borderlands 3 will support this feature (at least for PC and Xbox One).

We don’t right now whether the game will also support cross-platform play between PC and Playstation 4.

Borderlands 3 is currently scheduled for a September 13th release!

30 thoughts on “Borderlands 3 – Microsoft Store page hints at cross-platform co-op between PC and Xbox One”

  1. Well, like 10 news of Borderlands in less than two days. But not a single word about Risk of Rain 2 which is a hit right now on Steam… Guess its because ROR2 isnt an exclusive EPIC store AAA game… Things that are a hit on Steam arent “news” anymore.

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  2. So Xbox One players will be cross-playing with only Tim Sweeney and other Epic Games Developers for the first 6 months of release.

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    1. While I get the frustration, have fun with your meltdown.

      Metro dwarfed the first games sales combined on Epic. It isn’t a death sentence for sales. It has a massive install base. And as of yet? The spyware is only proven on particular accounts and you can watch it yourself. The launcher in the vast majority of cases seems to do nothing. They’re still evil sh*ts and I refuse to support it, but lets quit pretending this is going to hurt sales. Not only will Borderlands 3 do just fine, it’ll sell fantastically well on top of having 30% less taken off the top. Gearbox is set, that’s all I worry about.

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      1. Show me the sales numbers of Metro Exodus on Epic Games Store? I will show you Metro Series owner numbers on Steam.

        Number of owners of Metro Games on Steam:

        Metro 2033 = 13.9M (Was free to keep on OCTOBER 25, 2018, now delisted)
        Metro Last Light = 3.9M (Delisted when Redux version came out)
        Metro 2033 Redux = 4.2M
        Metro: Last Light Redux = 4.1M

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      2. I purchased Metro Exodus on Steam before it was taken down. 7 of my friends went for the CPY release. Imagine how well it would have sold if it had been on both Steam and Epic.

        I have pirated 2 games in the past 34 years, since I started working, Dead Space 3 and Crysis 3 (fu EA). I will be pirating this and any other Epic exclusives. Not only that, but as a coder for the past 38years, I will be helping with cracking them.

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        1. Again, with that 30% take how well it sold doesn’t really matter if it can’t overcome Steams hot f*king take of a commission. It’s a dangerous line to walk. Epic is balls, we can all agree on that. Sadly? I need y’all to start seeing this from Gearbox’s side. If they can’t crank out a winner for a long awaited game? Bad news bears for Gearbox. Over 50 major publishers and developers have gone under in the last decade. The middle market has vanished. Let’s just keep Gearbox off that casualty list and let 2K handle the numbers. So long as the game is untouched we don’t have much to complain about. PC gamers have options, including piracy/boycott. But the rest of us are just going to find a way to play and support the developer that we all know as good people that crank out fun games. I’ll be grabbing a console copy, problem solved.

          Ewww for pirating Dead Space 3. That abortion of a game isn’t worth the discs it got printed on. Certainly not the servers it was stored on. What an absolute slap in the face that game was.

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      1. Is it one of those gross N4G fanboys? Just mute it. You must have a to scale Kaz penis binky in your mouth at all times with these guys. And they really don’t like me for saying it.

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    1. Never saw this before

      and I love it. It’s stuff like this why I love comment sections under articles from this website.

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        1. and that is why I love it 😀 you would not find comment like yours under PCgamer article.

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          1. They are just an advertisement site so any criticism is frowned upon there 🙂

            Wccftech game articles as well, writers there actually defended EGS in the comments.

    3. If you think about it though, it’s actually the other way around, where the dev can do whatever they want on PC but on consoles they have all kinds of constraints.

      Just a thought.

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      1. Yet on consoles they can sell sub par quality games and people will just buy them anyway, while on PC they get buried among hundreds of quality games that release all the time.

        Literally too many games to play in the time I have gaming on PC. When I had a WiiU & PS4 and no PC I got bored constantly.

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        1. What sub par quality games are you speaking of?
          I am primarily a PC gamer so don’t think I’m trying to be combative in this situation. However, only on PC has it become a standard to sell sh**ty, broken early access games and never finish them, whilst on consoles that is still not the case.

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          1. Anthem, Elder Scrolls Online, Assassins Creed, Driveclub, Jump Force, Far Cry 5, … All games designed for consoles first and all disgustingly cheap and poorly made games. I could name so many others.

            And the early access games on PC you mention are the exception, not the rule.

          2. Well these are all games designed to work on consoles but it’s not as if there aren’t significant graphical improvements on pc. Witcher 3 was out on consoles too, was that a console game? Driveclub was a PS4 exclusive how did that make it into your list?

            I just think your argument lacks any sort of substance.

          3. My first reply to you said that on consoles, they sell sub par quality games and people just buy them like sheep. I didn’t say that all console games are trash, and in my examples I only used games that were designed for consoles first and later (maybe) ported to PC with varying success.

            I’m also not sure what you meant by constraints on PC. If anything, the PC has unlimited potential.

          4. I didn’t say there were any constraints on PC. Go read the comment again. I said it is the other way around where the developer can do whatever they want on PC where on a console they have to adhere with a significant amount of constraints from limited specs to content they can produce because it might not be OK with SONY or MS.

            You are also forgetting that not everyone wants a PC, console is easy. why would you sh*t talk people who just want an easy way to play games. Plug in and play. There is nothing wrong with any of the games you mentioned.

    1. The Texture Packs are seperate DLC Downloads called Ultra HD Texture Pack. Check their Store Pages to download them. They are 7.9 GB & 7.3 GB.

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