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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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!
they only sell because we have nothing els to buy, stop with the lies watch mojo.
Nostalgic
Congratulations 🍾
It was the same for me. we got a Pokémon Gameboy with the silver edition. I shared it with m 2 brothers. I loved it so much
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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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@Eric Wilsey Pissed me off seeing the Definitive Edition’s to represent the Original GTA games and when it got to MW2 and he said Nuketown I lost it.
We all know you neither play nor watch anything you review.
Where is mario kart 8 deluxe
@West Warmoore The gold and silver remakes were amazing BUT the ONLY issue I had with them (and it’s small) is the fact that they scrapped, Kris, the female character that you can play as that was introduced in crystal which was also the 1st ever playable female character in the core, main series pokemon games, and she should have been the female option in the remakes considering that she was in crystal but unfortunately she was absent and replaced with some *NEW* girl in a *REMAKE* (smh). If you ask me they didn’t have a choice but to make her the playable female character in those remakes considering that that was, in addition to her being the female character from the original games, also a milestone for the pokemon franchise, the first ever female playable character in the main series, core games and that should be celebrated, so it’s very strange how they didn’t make it happen. Talk about a glaring omission, smh. I still don’t understand the decision to this day! Like I said before, it’s a small thing *BUT* , I didn’t say this before: it means *SO MUCH*
2000, 2001: Pokemon Gold & Silver
2002: Grand Theft Auto Vice City
2003: Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire
2004: Grand Theft Auto San Andreas
2005: Grand Turismo 4
2006: New Super Mario Bros
2007, 2008 : Wii Sports
2009: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2010: Call of Duty: Black Ops
2011: Minecraft
2012: Diablo III
2013: Grand Theft Auto V
2014: Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
2015: The Witcher III: Wild Hunt
2016: Pokemon Sun & Moon
2017: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
2018: Red Dead Redemption 2
2019: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
2020: Animal Crossing: New Horizons
2021: Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War
cod series is overrated! doesnt deserve the praise!!
2022: elden ring
Need for speed fire 🔥 bro
They obviously don’t know that spiderman was 2018’s most sold game
Thanks
Gran turismo 4 is still one of my favorite games of all time. Such an amazing and addicting game
For me 2018 was last great gaming year. GoW, RDR2, Spiderman, AC Odyssey in the same year. Unbelievable.
Also Monster Hunter World
@kovalchoke MH world isn’t normie enough for the OP lol.
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.
Totally agree. Best game ever😁
I mean, Vice City was supposed to be a reference to Scarface as a whole.
METAL-GEAR-SOLID 1998
@Vetarlit Torf more like heat
I still can’t forget the way Timmy’s hand are like he’s always riding a bike but he’s not
Hey watch mojo! Do a video on the best video games of each year from 1972-2022. Pong turns 50 this year and I’m curious on how popular evolved from that year.
Yeah with this video we can see the evolution of games
Yes, could base it on awards won or something like that.
GTA:San Andreas & GTA:Vice City.
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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
they only sell because we have nothing els to buy, stop with the lies watch mojo.
@Ryder ` The DS era had plenty of games to buy and play. Even with the 3DS, companies were still selling DS titles. Third Party support was strong such as Square Enix, Activision, EA, Ubisoft, etc. It was the most game collection I had after PS2. Not even my Xbox 360, PS3/4, Switch combined matched my library.
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.
You mean 4 games in 2. 2 in each game. And if you count crystal that’s 2 games in each of the 3 games.
Pokémon, GTA, and minecraft will always have a special place on this list.
As in, 3/4 of the list? Lol
RDR2 is a masterpiece in almost every way that I have to stop playing it and focus and my future
@Damien Lu amogus
@Mr Fantastic yellow that’s rdonline not rdr2
It is beautifully made. Didn’t care for the gameplay though.
@Damien Lu maybe it’s because you can’t aim straight
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.
Modern warfare 2 was such an iconic game both Campaign and Multiplayer
@JigsawJoe13 That’s what made it iconic bro
Nope, the lobbies. Where the soft were tore apart and the strong survived
Red Dead Redemption 2 was something else ! It was an experience to live
Def the first was even better if you can believe it story telling wise
It sure was but damn, I’m just not into video games like I was when I was child.
Best game ive ever played
It’s overrated af
True story was great online sux
Watching this just gave me nostalgia because These games were literally the foundation of my life
Sounds a bit sad…
It’s been 20 years since GTA: Vice City was released? Damn!
Yes and during these 20 years you have had, san andreas, liberty city, gta 4, gta 5 for the first 10 and in the last 10 just more gta 5 haha 🙁
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.
Fun fact : you can’t have wars on nuketown on MW2 because thats a black ops map. But nice try writers.
Fun fact black ops it the best COD of all time, had the best pacing and maps for search and destroy and perfect movement and damage rates.
To this day, I can still hear “Switch to your secondary, it’s faster than reloading!” In my head whenever I play a shooter
@Dillroy besides they were the highest selling games in their release years U muppet
@Rebeldoctor vanguard and cold war are far from the highest selling games in their release years
yeah i kept playing the audio back and put on captions…..like “am i hearing this right? nuketown?” lmao
Its quite amazing how the games of 2011 still holds to these very day….I mean Minecraft, Skyrim, Dark Souls …these games aged well