The head of Gearbox Software has said he’d ‘love’ to see Borderlands 1 remastered for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Speaking on the latest episode of Major Nelson’s podcast, Randy Pitchford said that the original loot-based RPG could make the jump to current-generation consoles if Borderlands: The Handsome Collection sells enough copies.
“The fact that The Handsome Collection has Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and Borderlands 2 means there’s still that original game that isn’t on next-gen yet,” said Pitchford. “If this is successful, I’m sure the folks at 2K, the people that care about publishing and figure out how to get content in customers’ hands if customers want it, will be noticing that.
And I’d love to have those conversations about how to bring Borderlands 1 to next-gen. If The Handsome Collection is successful enough, there might be a way to justify that, and I really hope that’s the case. I’d love to have my entire Borderlands collection on next-gen.”
Despite the fact Borderlands runs on a different engine to its successors, Pitchford believes this issue can be overcome easily enough to get the game on PS4 and Xbox One.
Borderlands: The Handsome Collection is out this week.