007 First Light sells 1.5 million copies in first 24 hours
IO Interactive sold 1.5 million copies of its James Bond origin game 007: First Light within 24 hours across PC and consoles. Circana's Player Engagement Tracker ranked the game sixth in total active players on US PlayStation on May 27 with an average 225 minutes per player and fifth on US Steam with 170 minutes per player. The fast launch and unusually high per-player playtime mark a major commercial win for IO Interactive, the studio behind Hitman, and signal strong momentum for ongoing post-release content and future Bond projects.
007 First Light has sold 1.5 million copies in first 24 hours of release
Soumyadeep29Optimized single player game sells amazingly. CEOs taking note: Let's make a bondlike PVE shooter and release it before the development is fully complete and then fire all devs for profit!
nikpat.bsky.social201.5? Why not 2? Woke defeated once again.
Legion Gaming Podcast3They definitely earned that number. It’s so good
BlueAizu 青2Personally waiting for the Switch 2 release (it just feels right playing 007 on Nintendo), but I'm excited it's doing very well out the gate!
Gamers these days, especially the younger ones, wouldn't have survived gaming pre-2010s. Endless amounts of open world + neverending online games has broken a lot of brains. People are mad 007 First Light is a 15-20 hour game. Which, is pretty good. When I was a kid you were lucky for a 7hr story.
yezzurp18If you think $89.99CAD is too much for a 20 hour single player campaign then you're just entitled. I mean, games are expensive and I'd love for them to be cheaper but y'alls standards for a full-priced game are so whack.
Harold Fjord15When I was a kid games lasted for years because I was fucking terrible at them
Money Is Fake11I’ve been gaming since MS-DOS. There were open world games that never ended then. “Gamers these days” would be fine back then.
H.B Gamer9I'll take a 20 hour campaign, over a giant open world game that lasts 100 hours long (or more). Theres lots of good games that are that length that I can enjoy but its never the game I would choose first.
TiffTalks6I dislike how open-world is seen as some sort of objective evolution rather than what it actually is: A genre. It's so oversaturated now because everyone sees it as just "better" than other genres. Hoping that dies down a bit
Matt w/ the Gyatt (They/Them)5Open world games destroyed gaming expectations. I will gladly take a 7.5h more linear James bond game that gives 1000 paths versus a 200 hour open world game that is all "collect x items"
Captain Laserpaw5I remember loading games from the old C64 disk drive, you’d wait 10-20mins to load a game that might give you an 30-60min of gameplay. We just also did other things like reading books, going outside etc. I would still prefer that to the terminally online, games-as-a-service hellscape we have now.
Shaggy B5Come on. I'm over 40. We don't need to fucking gatekeep video games. Shut up and let people enjoy things.
A Faerie in Fal’halaen5I dunno, I remember dumping about 50+ hours into FF9 back in the day. Grinding, finding all the goodies (except Excalibur II), getting tetra master cards…. I don’t know what the cost was after inflation though xD
Pope4Ah yes, I love the 7 hour games of the pre 2010s like final fantasy (any of them), monster hunter, legend of zelda, xenogears, pokemon crystal, etc. Wait wdym all of those games take over 40 hours to beat completely?
Hoarder of all things intelligence.3The first edition of metroid could be beaten in three hours or less. It cost me twenty bucks on the nes.
Chris ☭ 🇨🇺🇻🇪🇨🇳🇮🇷🇵🇸3the test results are in, I’m afraid you have boomer brain 😔
meikyuubun3im a gamer from these days. shut the fuck up
I guess we played very different games I was playing wizards crown, bards tale, Ultima, daggerfall - in the 80s, 90s. those are hundreds of hours each
vampycatxo2It's more the fact that video games are increasing in price WITHOUT increasing in length or quality. $6 per hour of content is not that bad considering other common activities that we pay for, but today's $90 games are the EXACT SAME DAMN THING as the $80 games, they just charge more for them.
Lee 'the J is for J' Carter2When I was a kid it was 3 hours, and if you wanted to know the story you had to read the physical book.
Omni2That's because we spent most our time outside or with friends. Most kids these days spend all their time on games. Not bashing them, I game a ton. Game worlds are preferable to our real world these days. I used to read a ton. Now I game. So I want long campaigns. The world is changed.
