007 First Light sells 4 Million copies in just three months

Four million copies in three months. That’s the kind of number that makes publishers do a little dance behind closed doors, and IO Interactive and Amazon MGM Studios have every right to one after confirming 007 First Light has hit that mark, officially making it one of 2026’s fastest-selling premium games.

I’ll admit I wasn’t sure Bond could pull this off in game form, but the numbers don’t lie, and neither does the glowing review this got out of the gate. The Switch 2 version is still coming later this year too, so this total is only going to climb.

007 First Light sequel was never actually in doubt, was it?

There was a genuinely weird stretch earlier this year where nobody knew if IO Interactive would even get to make the 007 First Light follow-up. Amazon Gaming boss Jeff Gattis seemed to hint otherwise back in June, then did a total about-face a month and a half later and practically confirmed IO Interactive is staying on. Good. They earned it.

Meanwhile, IO Interactive isn’t just coasting on launch numbers. Year One is stacked: more Tactical Simulation missions dropping into familiar spots like Kensington’s Workshop, the Slovakian mountains, Mauritania’s black market, and the Pearl resort in Vietnam. There’s fresh intel on Webb Industries to dig through, a mysterious bit of tech that sounds suspiciously like a future villain in waiting, and a job for Bond after MI6 strikes an odd alliance with Pirate King Bawma.

On top of that, expect regular TacSim drops with new gadgets, weapons, leaderboards and cosmetics, plus a possible New Game+ mode for anyone who wants to run it back. The NVIDIA path tracing update for PC, delayed since launch, is still coming too.

Not a bad Year One at all for a studio that’s had a rough few months elsewhere, what with Microsoft pulling funding on Project Fantasy and IO having to foot that bill alone now. Bond’s carrying the studio right now, and, he’s carried worse.