Gearbox has announced a Borderlands 3 Steam release date of March 13 and confirmed the new version will support cross-platform play.
The2K-published shooter first released on September 13, 2019through the Epic Games storeas part of a six month exclusivity deal.
TheEpic Games storelaunched as a rival toSteamin December 2018, offering developers an 88 per cent share of the revenue their games bring in, compared to the 70/30 per cent revenue split offered byValve.
The more attractive revenue split helpedEpicsecure some majorPCexclusive during 2019, includingMetro: Exodus,Remedy’sControl,Obsidian’sThe Outer Worldsand more.
According toGearboxCEORandy Pitchford, the exclusivity deal turned out to be very successful for the developer, withBorderlands 3 attracting more concurrent players at launchthan any other PC game in it history.
Pitchfordclaimed“launch day peak concurrent players of Borderlands 3 is about twice-as-high as the all time peak concurrent players ofBorderlands2”.
He said onTwitterthe day after the game launched: “Incredible day with new peak concurrency (and climbing). Best numbers in Gearbox history!”
Deep Silver’s parent company recently claimed thatits former Epic exclusive Metro Exodus was performing “great” on Steamfollowing its return to the platform.
Metro Exodus made its long-awaited Steam debut this month, launching with an introductory 40% discount, which has now ended.
Embracer GroupCEO Lars Wingefors also said of the game’s Steam performance: “I was happy to see it’s been performing well, selling about 200,000 copies already, and surprising to see that one big country in Asia was the biggest country buying the product, very close to America.”
