{"id":83983,"date":"2026-06-06T11:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T15:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83983"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:36:42","slug":"007-first-light-dev-io-interactive-says-its-now-sold-3-million-copies-tracking-well-above-our-forecasts-at-this-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=83983","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Dev IO Interactive Says It&#8217;s Now Sold 3 Million Copies, Tracking &#8216;Well Above Our Forecasts at This Point&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Developer IO Interactive is celebrating after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/games\/007-first-light\">007 First Light<\/a> sold 3 million copies in less than two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>IOI had announced 2.7 million sales in a week, but in an interview with IGN&#8217;s Simon Cardy in Los Angeles yesterday, CEO Hakan Abrak said the James Bond adventure game is now up to 3 million, having gone on sale on May 26. \u201cI&#8217;m feeling absolutely amazing,\u201d Abrak said when asked how he felt about the launch of 007 First Light. Its success comes without the help of a Nintendo Switch 2 version, which is expected to arrive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/james-bond-game-007-first-light-delayed-on-nintendo-switch-until-later-this-summer\">later this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not only has 007 First Light launched to strong sales, but it\u2019s critically acclaimed. It has 88 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/007-first-light\/\">Metacritic<\/a>, with IGN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/007-first-light-review\">007 First Light review<\/a> returning a 9\/10. We said: \u201cDemonstrably obsessed with bringing the Bond fantasy to life in a way no one has ever managed before, 007 First Light is the best Bond game I\u2019ve ever played.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"007-first-light-screenshots\" data-value=\"007-first-light-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>Abrak told us that he made a speech during a town hall meeting five minutes before the reviews went live, telling staff that the most important thing is \u201cnot those people telling us whether we&#8217;re worthy of this, it\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Developer IO Interactive is celebrating after 007 First Light sold 3 million copies in less than two weeks. IOI had announced 2.7 million sales in a week, but in an interview with IGN&#8217;s Simon Cardy in Los Angeles yesterday, CEO Hakan Abrak said the James Bond adventure game is now up to 3 million, having&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":83985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-ign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83983"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83987,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83983\/revisions\/83987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/83985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}