Borderlands 3 on Switch Breaks a 14-Year-Old Tradition

Today marks the anticipated launch of Borderlands 3 on the Nintendo Switch, as well as the availability of the entire Borderlands franchise on the console. Ahead of Borderlands 3‘s Switch port there were some concerns regarding how the game would fare on Nintendo’s aging hardware, with the assumption that the title would have to make significant compromises in its visuals and performance in order to maintain a stable frame rate on the system. Thankfully, the impressions of Borderlands 3 on the Switch seem to be mostly positive regarding its performance, but it is missing one of the most critical series features: four-player co-op.