2008 in video games

2008 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as Grand Theft Auto IV, Fallout 3, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Gears of War 2, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Persona 4, Fable II, Call of Duty: World at War, Mario Kart Wii, Madden NFL 09, NBA Live 09, NBA 2K9, and WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009. New intellectual properties included Army of Two, Dead Space, Left 4 Dead, LittleBigPlanet, Mirror's Edge, iRacing, Race Driver: Grid, and Spore.

Events

Business

Open to the public

Hardware and software sales

Worldwide

The following are the best-selling games of 2008 in terms of worldwide retail sales. These games sold at least 5 million units worldwide in 2008.

Canada

• Based on figures from the NPD Group:

Video game console sales in Canada (first seven months of 2008)

Japan

• Based on figures from Enterbrain:

Video game console sales of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 – December 28, 2008)

Best-selling video games of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 – December 28, 2008)

• Based on figures from Dengeki:

Best-selling video games of 2008 in Japan (December 31, 2007 – December 21, 2008)

United States

• Based on figures from the NPD Group:

• Based on figures from the NPD Group via IGN; the games' publishers are listed in brackets:

^ a: In the IGN articles used as sources, IGN lists the titles as the "Top 10 Sellers in 2008"; however, the IGN articles were published on December 9–12, 2008, so the articles might not take into account November and December sales figures, as the NPD Group did not release November's console game sales figures until December 11, 2008.

• Based on figures from the NPD Group:

Note: This list only includes games that were released after NPD started tracking video game sales data.

Other

• Based on figures from Enterbrain, GfK Chart-Track, and the NPD Group, respectively:

Best-selling video games in Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States combined (January–July 2008)

Best-selling video games in Japan, United Kingdom, and the United States combined (July–September 2008)

Hardware releases

Game releases

Critically acclaimed titles

Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.

Video game-based film and television releases

See also

• 2008 in esports
• 2008 in games

Notes

References