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2008 in video gaming
Events
- June 28: Blizzard Entertainment announces Diablo III at Paris, France.
Notable releases
- January 31 - Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the successor to the GameCube's best-selling game, Super Smash Bros. Melee, was released in Japan for the Wii. The game is a product of a landmark joint cooperation between former rival companies, Nintendo and Sega, along with the help of Konami. It is the first Wii game to strongly support online play. It dominated sales during its first week in Japan and the United States, selling 820,000 in Japan and becoming the fastest-selling video game in Nintendo of America's history with 1.4 million sold in the US.
- April 29 - Grand Theft Auto IV was released simultaneously for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. A few Hollywood producers have set precedent by beginning to browse video game release dates to check for conflicts due to Grand Theft Auto IV's potential harm to the May 2 2008 release of Iron Man. The PS3 and Xbox 360 version has taken the third and fourth positions of Game Rankings best-rated games of all time, respectively; as well as being the first console game since to receive a perfect rating from IGN, and the first title to receive a perfect rating from GameSpot since .
- June 12 - Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PlayStation 3 was released to critical acclaim, earning a 10 out of 10 from both IGN and GameSpot, and a 94% Metacritic rating. As of June 26 2008, the game has shipped 3 million copies worldwide, selling 1 million in Europe over 500,000 in Japan, and 1 million in US.
Business
- July 15 to July 17 - E3 2008 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
- July 31 to August 3 - QuakeCon 2008 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, U.S.A.
- October 2 to October 4 - Nintendo conference held in San Francisco, USA and Tokyo, Japan.
Open to the public
- August 21 to August 24 - Games Convention in Leipzig, Germany.
- October 3 to October 5 - E for All at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, U.S.A.
- October 9 to October 12 - Tokyo Game Show at the Makuhari Messe International Convention in Mihama-ku, Chiba, Japan.
- October 9 to October 12 - Games Convention Asia in Singapore.
- October 10 to October 11 - Blizzcon 2008 in Anaheim, California, U.S.A.
Scheduled releases
Unscheduled releases
- Age of Pirates: Captain Blood (Win)
- Art of Fighting Anthology (Wii)
- Black Sigil: Blade of the Exiled (NDS)
- Damnation (PS3, Win, X360)
- Dance Dance Revolution Universe 3 (X360)
- Dark Void (PS3, Win, X360)
- Disaster: Day of Crisis (Wii)
- Dragon Quest IX (NDS)
- Eternity's Child (NDS, Wii)
- Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (NDS)
- MySims (Win)
- NHL 09 (NDS, Wii)
- One Piece: Unlimited Cruise: Episode 2 (Wii)
- Patapon 2 (PSP)
- Tecmo Bowl: Kickoff (NDS)
- Tetris Party (Wii)
- Ultimate Band (NDS, Wii)
- WorldShift (Win)
Hardware and software sales
Canada
Based on figures from the NPD Group.Video game console sales in Canada (first seven months of 2008)
| Place | Console | Units sold |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wii | 376,000 |
| 2 | PlayStation 3 | 200,000 |
| 3 | Xbox 360 | 154,000 |
United States
Based on figures from the NPD Group via Gamasutra. Figures do not include collector's editions and software bundled with consoles.Best-selling PlayStation 3 games in the US (first eight months of 2008)
| Place | Title | Units sold |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Theft Auto IV | - |
| 2 | Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots | - |
| 3 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | 600,000 |
| 4 | Madden NFL 09 | - |
| 5 | Gran Turismo 5 Prologue excludes copies sold through the PlayStation Store | - |
Best-selling Wii games in the US (first eight months of 2008)
| Place | Title | Units sold |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | 3.2 million |
| 2 | Mario Kart Wii with Wheel | 2.7 million |
| 3 | Wii Play with Remote | 2.5 million |
| 4 | Wii Fit with Balance Board | 1.8 million |
| 5 | Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock with guitar | 1.3 million |
Best-selling Xbox 360 games in the US (first eight months of 2008)
| Place | Title | Units sold |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Theft Auto IV | 3 million |
| 2 | Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare | 1.2 million |
| 3 | Madden NFL 09 | - |
| 4 | Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 | 900,000–1 million |
| 5 | Army of Two | 800,000–900,000 |
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 (first seven months of 2008)
| Place | Title | Units sold in Japan | Units sold in the UK | Units sold in the US | Total units sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grand Theft Auto IV | - | 1,582,000 | 4,711,000 | 6,293,000 |
| 2 | Super Smash Bros. Brawl | 1,681,000 | 213,000 | 3,539,000 | 5,433,000 |
| 3 | Mario Kart Wii | 1,601,000 | 687,000 | 2,409,000 | 4,697,000 |
| 4 | Wii Fit | 1,547,000 | 624,000 | 1,433,000 | 3,604,000 |
| 5 | 26,000 | 412,000 | 3,037,000 | 3,475,000 |
References
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