Top 22 Best Selling Video Games of Each Year (2000 - 2021)

It's time to look back at the games that reached the widest audiences since 2000. For this list, we’re looking at the games that sold the most copies, beating out the rest of the competition in their respective years. Our list includes "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" (2020), "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas" (2004), "Minecraft" (2011), "The Witcher III: Wild Hunt" (2015), and more! Have you played any of these games? Which of them were must haves when they came out? Share with us in the comments below!

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[WatchMojo]

Correction: We said that you can have wars on Nuketown on MW2, but it's actually a black ops map. Sorry for the mistake! Thanks to those who caught the error!

Which of them were must haves when they came out? Share with us in the comments below!

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0:38, 1:34: 2000, 2001: Pokemon Gold & Silver
2:37: 2002: Grand Theft Auto Vice City
3:45: 2003: Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire
4:42: 2004: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
5:37: 2005: Grand Turismo 4
6:31: 2006: New Super Mario Bros
7:42, 8:45: 2007, 2008 : Wii Sports
9:40: 2009: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
10:44: 2010: Call of Duty: Black Ops
11:41: 2011: Minecraft
12:41: 2012: Diablo III
13:44: 2013: Grand Theft Auto V
14:53: 2014: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
15:47: 2015: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
16:49: 2016: Pokemon Sun & Moon
17:55: 2017: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
18:48: 2018: Red Dead Redemption 2
19:56: 2019: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
20:55: 2020: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
22:23: 2021: Call of Duty: Black Ops - Cold War

[ChubbyChecker]

GTA Vice City was the first time I felt like I was playing a movie. Or even playing in a fully fledged other world. Absolutely Brilliant that game was for its time.

[Teddy-rhvl]

Red Dead Redemption 2 was something else ! It was an experience to live

[WeezyFnBaby]

Fun fact : you can’t have wars on nuketown on MW2 because thats a black ops map. But nice try writers.

[jizolord]

Pokémon, GTA, and minecraft will always have a special place on this list.

[YesImJoeKing]

In 2000 my mother bought me pokemon silver for Christmas when I was a child. I never had played the pokemon games before that one but I was a big fan of the franchise and the show. Ever since then I became a big fan of the pokemon games and became a fan for life!

[darksider]

I played pkmn gold so much back in the day. So immersive with so much to do, it was such a great sequel to the first gen games.

[debarghyasarkar]

Its quite amazing how the games of 2011 still holds to these very day....I mean Minecraft, Skyrim, Dark Souls ...these games aged well

[njuey]

For me 2018 was last great gaming year. GoW, RDR2, Spiderman, AC Odyssey in the same year. Unbelievable.

[simonphamandcompany]

RDR2 is a masterpiece in almost every way that I have to stop playing it and focus and my future

[ztmusic]

#22: Pokémon: Gold & Silver (2000)
#21: Pokémon: Gold & Silver (2001)
#20: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (2002)
#19: Pokémon: Ruby & Sapphire (2003)
#18: Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (2004)
#17: Grand Turismo 4 (2005)
#16: New Super Mario Bros. (2006)
#15: Wii Sports (2007)*
#14: Wii Sports (2008)
#13: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (2009)*
#12: Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010)*
#11: Minecraft (2011)*
#10: Diablo 3 (2012)
#9: Grand Theft Auto V (2013)
#8: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (2014)
#7: The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt (2015)
#6: Pokémon: Sun & Moon (2016)
#5: Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds (2017)
#4: Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)
#3: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019)
#2: Animal Crossing: New Horizons (2020)
#1: Call of Duty: Black Ops- Cold War (2021)

*Games of my childhood.

[AbbyNormL]

It’s been 20 years since GTA: Vice City was released? Damn!

[corymorimacori]

6:32 I remember this game. I played the crap out of it on my ds. Couldn’t even complete the whole game since the final level was hard. Other games I played at lot on my ds were the cod games, and Mario kart

[mr.decencykeepinitreal]

GTA:San Andreas & GTA:Vice City.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[XxLUIGIxX]

Ah yes. MW2. To this day, I can still hear "Switch to your secondary, it's faster than reloading!" In my head whenever I play a shooter

[emiebex]

Pokémon Gold & Sliver truly showed what Pokémon was capable on The Gameboy. You even got to play the Original Red, Blue, & Yellow versions if you played all the way through The Kanto league. So it was technically 4 Games in one.

[gilbertmillers]

The games I liked growing up
Pokèmon
Wii Sports
Mario Bros.
Mortal Kombat
DC
Ben 10
Goosebumps
Bakugan
Scooby-Doo
Matrix
Duck Shooting
Super Smash Bros.
Sonic
Kirby
Dance Games
LEGO Games
Harry Potter
Wrestling WWE

[RibbidyJamGames]

Modern warfare 2 was such an iconic game both Campaign and Multiplayer

[theoutcat]

The entire 'open world' genre as well as Rockstar itself would be whole lotta different if vice city didn't do good. In a sense vice city is one of the turning points in gaming industry.