{"id":700736,"date":"2026-05-29T03:53:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700736\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:53:11","slug":"007-first-light-exceeds-1-5-million-sales-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/700736\/","title":{"rendered":"007 First Light Exceeds 1.5 Million Sales in 24 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>007 First Light <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/349406\/007-first-light-launches-globally-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">officially launched on May 27<\/a>, and although the game was far from free of criticism, it has apparently been quite popular. Although <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/steamdb.info\/app\/3768760\/charts\/\" target=\"_blank\">SteamDB reports<\/a> that First Light peaked at only 68,477 concurrent players on Steam during its first day out, IO Interactive confirmed in a recent <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IOInteractive\/status\/2060061414761402754\" target=\"_blank\">post to X<\/a> that the game had already sold 1.5 million copies within 24 hours of launch. This is in spite of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/349394\/007-first-light-ships-with-baked-in-fsr-3-1-lacks-fsr-4-support-dll-mods-dont-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">minor controversies surrounding the game&#8217;s lack of FSR 4 and DLL mod support<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[Editor&#8217;s note: TechPowerUp&#8217;s in-depth <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/review\/007-first-light-performance-benchmark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Performance Review<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/review\/007-first-light-steam-deck-xbox-ally-x-claw-8-performance-benchmark\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Handheld Performance Review<\/a> of 007 First Light are now live]<\/p>\n<p>For context, Bungie&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/347770\/marathon-sales-estimated-at-1-2-million-steam-leads-the-pack-with-two-thirds-of-sales?cp=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Marathon reached 1.2 million<\/a> estimated sales across PC, PS5, and Xbox three weeks after launch. 1.5 million sales on day one puts First Light only slightly behind Subnautica 2, which was highly anticipated ahead of launch and managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/349148\/subnautica-2-crosses-2-million-sales-shortly-after-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sell 2 million units on launch day<\/a>. This strong showing is made all the more impressive because this is IO Interactive&#8217;s first detour from the Hitman franchise in a decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/tYeXhI5s65LT79cF.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1707\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g349462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/tYeXhI5s65LT79cF_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/MAFgv27CFDxQbUKj.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"782\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g349462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MAFgv27CFDxQbUKj_thm.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/img\/ZEutkRdw7dwUJ7io.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" data-width=\"1707\" data-height=\"960\" data-fancybox=\"g349462\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/ZEutkRdw7dwUJ7io_thm.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"130\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"007 First Light officially launched on May 27, and although the game was far from free of criticism,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-700736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}