{"id":1961558,"date":"2026-05-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1961558"},"modified":"2026-05-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:00:00","slug":"live-and-let-buy-007-first-light-tops-1-5m-sales-in-its-first-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1961558","title":{"rendered":"Live and let buy: 007 First Light tops 1.5m sales in its first 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Evidently quite a lot of us have been expecting you, Mr Bond: within just 24 hours of release,\u00a0<em>007 First Light<\/em> has already racked up over 1.5m sales.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">That\u2019s more units in the opening day of release than any of the\u00a0<em>Hitman<\/em> titles, which Danish studio Io Interactive created before this Bond origin story. It\u2019s gone down well with the critics too, currently sitting at 87 on Metacritic, and you can expect to see our review imminently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Those 1.5m units sold tell us that people still care about James Bond, and that much-hyped game releases are still capable of meeting lofty fan expectations.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s great news, not just for Bond fans, but for gaming. You\u2019ll have noticed how tough conditions are out there in the games industry right now and how many projects are being canned before they even see the light of day. Frankly, we need more\u00a0<em>007 First Light<\/em>s to illuminate the way.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"HtmlContent\" class=\"MarkUpWrapper-sc-t20i90-0 hQwWlJ\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The highest-selling 24 hour record in games, you ask? Oh, you didn\u2019t? Well we googled it anyway, so tough: it\u2019s\u00a0<em>GTA V<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Obviously<\/em> it\u2019s\u00a0<em>GTA V<\/em>. 11.2m units sold when it first released in 2013, which as we all know is over a hundred years ago now.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well done, Io. Make loads more brilliant games, please.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently quite a lot of us have been expecting you, Mr Bond: within just 24 hours of release,\u00a0007 First Light has already racked up over 1.5m sales. That\u2019s more units in the opening day of release than any of the\u00a0Hitman titles, which Danish studio Io Interactive created before this Bond origin story. It\u2019s gone down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-1961558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1961558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1961558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1961558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1961558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1961558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}