While the overall future of the James Bond video game franchise is up in the air, the next 12 months have been laid out for the IO Interactive-published “007 First Light.”
With more than 2.7 million copies sold in the first week after its May 27 launch, the popularity of “007 First Light” — and a tease at the end of the game — led to widespread online conversations about the potential for future Bond games. However, comments from James Bond rights holder Amazon MGM Studios called into question whether IO Interactive would be part of those possible projects.
“We’re not speculating about that at all. We have a really good relationship with them, as they also said,” IO Interactive CEO and co-owner Hakan Abrak told Variety last week during Summer Game Fest in Los Angeles. “So we’re really happy about that relationship. And right now it’s 200% on ‘First Light,’ because for us, the start is only the beginning.”
Amazon GM of gaming Jeff Gattis said in an interview with Polygon June 3 that future Bond video games will be “done by MGM and, theoretically, by Amazon Game Studios,” the owners of the James Bond IP. That’s because the latest Bond game was put into development at IO Interactive before Amazon acquired the “full rights to this ‘First Light’ James Bond game,” Gattis said.
