IO Interactive has shared a fresh batch of statistics for 007 First Light, and the headline number is straightforward: the game has now sold 2.7 million copies across PC and consoles. That is a meaningful jump from the 2.2 million reported at the end of its first week, and it puts a game that cost $202 million and seven years to make in increasingly comfortable territory.
The more interesting numbers, though, are the ones about how people are actually playing it.
The Stats That Tell the Real Story
Thirty-four million missions have been started across the game's playerbase. Thirty-seven percent of them have been successfully completed. That means nearly two thirds of all mission attempts have ended in failure, which is either a testament to how demanding the stealth design actually is or evidence that a very large number of people are approaching a Bond game the way Bond approaches a martini – confidently, and without necessarily knowing what they are doing.
Ten million players have used the bluffing mechanic to talk their way past guards. Given the overall mission success rate, it is not clear how many of those bluffs landed, but the sheer volume of people reaching...
