After selling 1.5 million copies in just a single day, more info on how much it cost to develop 007 First Light has come forward. Obviously, there is one factor that is never attributed to game dev costs — marketing. Since IO Interactive both developed and published it, they no doubt spent a pretty penny on making sure it’s in peoples’ faces in the best way possible.
Danish Broadcasting Corporation (via GamingBolt) cites that it cost 1.3 billion kroner, which is around $202 million. There were some shoddy things, though, like how the game’s development cycle was seven years, but that could be chalked up to potentially when pre-production kicked off rather than full-production, as we don’t know when that started.
007 First Light is the first full-fledged James Bond game since 2012’s disaster, 007 Legends. The title has been long-awaited, with IOI seemingly the best fit for making an action adventure 007 game, after all, they’ve got Hitman under their belt.
007 First Light is currently available on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S, with Nintendo Switch 2 coming at a later date.
