The year 2000 saw the release of numerous video games as well as the launch of the PlayStation 2. Critically acclaimed games originally released in 2000 include sequels such as Madden NFL 2001, NBA Live 2001, NBA 2K1, , Baldur's Gate II, Diablo II, Dragon Quest VII, Final Fantasy IX, , NFL 2K1, , , , and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, along with new intellectual properties such as Deus Ex, Jet Set Radio, Perfect Dark, Skies of Arcadia, The Sims, SSX, Vagrant Story, and Sin and Punishment. The year's best-selling home video games worldwide were Pokémon games for the third year in a row (since 1998), while the highest-grossing arcade game in Japan was Virtua Striker 2.
The list of game-related hardware released in 2000.
Month | Day | System | |
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March | 4 | PlayStation 2[1] [2] | |
July | 7 | PS One[3] | |
October | 26 | PlayStation 2[4] | |
November | 24 | PlayStation 2 | |
30 | PlayStation 2 | ||
December | 9 | WonderSwan Color[5] [6] | |
Unknown | Sega NAOMI 2 (arcade)[7] [8] |
The following titles won Game of the Year awards for 2000.
The following video game releases in 2000 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" for receiving Famitsu scores of at least 35 out of 40.[29]
Title | Platform | Publisher | Genre | Score (out of 40) | |
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Vagrant Story | PlayStation | Squaresoft | Action RPG | 40 | |
Tekken Tag Tournament | PlayStation 2 | Namco | Fighting | 38 | |
Final Fantasy IX | PlayStation | Squaresoft | RPG | 38 | |
PlayStation | Enix | RPG | 38 | ||
(Majora's Mask) | Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | Action-adventure | 37 | |
Phantasy Star Online | Dreamcast | Sega | Action RPG | 37 | |
Ridge Racer V | PlayStation 2 | Namco | Racing | 36 | |
(Shiren the Wanderer 2) | Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | Roguelike | 36 | |
Biohazard – Code: Veronica (Resident Evil – Code: Veronica) | Dreamcast | Capcom | Survival horror | 35 | |
Game Boy Color | Nintendo | Card battle | 35 | ||
The Typing of the Dead | Dreamcast | Sega | Edutainment | 35 | |
Jikkyō Powerful Pro Yakyū 7 | PlayStation 2 | Konami | Sports | 35 | |
Grandia II | Dreamcast | Game Arts | RPG | 35 | |
MotoGP | PlayStation 2 | Namco | Racing | 35 | |
(Sin and Punishment) | Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | Rail shooter | 35 |
Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.
Rank | Manufacturer | Game console | Type | Generation | Sales | ||||
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data-sort-type="number" | Japan | data-sort-type="number" | USA | Europe | data-sort-type="number" | Worldwide | |||
1 | Sony | PlayStation | Home | 32-bit | 940,000[35] | 3,910,000 | 2,940,000 | 7,790,000 | |
2 | Nintendo | Game Boy / Game Boy Color | Handheld | 8-bit | 3,370,000[36] | 18,860,000 | |||
3 | Sony | PlayStation 2 | Home | 128-bit | 3,940,000[37] | [38] | 1,000,000[39] | 6,400,000[40] | |
4 | Nintendo | Nintendo 64 | Home | 64-bit | 200,000 | 2,850,000 | |||
5 | Sega | Dreamcast | Home | 128-bit | 470,000[41] | 500,000+[42] [43] | 2,279,000+ | ||
6 | Bandai | WonderSwan | Handheld | 16-bit | 1,400,000 | 1,400,000 | |||
7 | Nintendo | Super NES / Super Famicom | Home | 16-bit | 10,000 | 90,000 | |||
8 | Sega | Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) | Home | 16-bit | ,000 | 54,000+ | |||
9 | Nintendo | Famicom (NES) | Home | 8-bit | 50,000 | 50,000 | |||
10 | Sega | Sega Saturn | Home | 32-bit | 810+ |
The following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 2000 in Japan, the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany.
Title | Platform(s) | Sales | ||||||
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Japan | USA | UK | Germany | Combined | ||||
1 | Pokémon Gold / Silver / Crystal | GBC | 3,448,900 | 4,000,000+[44] | + | |||
2 | Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow | Game Boy | 315,443 | + | 900,000+ | 800,000+ | 5,715,443+ | |
3 | PlayStation | 3,900,000+ | 3,900,000+ | |||||
4 | Final Fantasy IX | PlayStation | 2,707,000 | 987,354 | + | |||
5 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater | PS1, N64 | 2,307,835+ | |||||
6 | Gran Turismo 2 | PlayStation | 315,173 | 1,155,469 | 300,000+ | 200,000+ | 1,970,642+ | |
7 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | PS1, N64 | 100,000+ | 1,939,332+ | ||||
8 | N64 | 601,542 | 1,206,489 | 1,808,031+ | ||||
9 | Pokémon Stadium (Pokémon Stadium 2) | Nintendo 64 | 42,166 | 1,701,820 | + | |||
10 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4 | Game Boy Color | 1,669,308 | 1,669,308 |
The following titles were the top ten highest-grossing home video games of 2000 in the United States and Europe.
Title | Platform(s) | Sales revenue | |||||
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USA | Europe | Combined | Inflation | ||||
1 | Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow | Game Boy | + | €,000,000 | $367,000,000+ | $+ | |
2 | Pokémon Stadium | Nintendo 64 | €76,000,000 | $176,000,000 | $ | ||
3 | Pokémon Gold / Silver | GBC | + | $110,000,000+ | $+ | ||
4 | Nintendo 64 | €27,000,000 | $97,000,000 | $ | |||
5 | Gran Turismo 2 | PlayStation | €63,000,000 | $95,000,000 | $ | ||
6 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | Multi-platform | + | €20,000,000 | $92,000,000 | $+ | |
7 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater | PS1, N64 | $88,000,000+ | $+ | |||
8 | The Sims | PC | $50,773,114 | €36,000,000 | $83,773,114 | $ | |
9 | Madden NFL 2001 | PS2, PS1 | + | $68,000,000+ | $+ | ||
10 | Diablo II | PC | $41,051,565 | €25,000,000 | $64,051,565 | $ |
In Japan, the following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 2000.
Rank | Title | Platform | Developer | Publisher | Genre | Sales | ||
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1 | PlayStation | Heartbeat | Enix | RPG | 3,900,000+ | [45] | ||
2 | Pocket Monsters: Gold / Silver / Crystal (Pokémon) | Game Boy Color | Game Freak | Nintendo | RPG | 3,448,900 | [46] | |
3 | Final Fantasy IX | PlayStation | Squaresoft | Squaresoft | RPG | 2,707,000 | [47] | |
4 | Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 4: Battle of Great Duelists | Game Boy Color | Konami | Konami | Card battle | 1,669,308 | [48] | |
5 | Hoshi no Kirby 64 (Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards) | Nintendo 64 | HAL Laboratory | Nintendo | Platformer | 933,000 | ||
6 | Mario Tennis 64 (Mario Tennis) | Nintendo 64 | Camelot Software | Nintendo | Sports | 874,350 | ||
7 | Game Boy Color | Konami | Konami | Card battle | 781,000 | |||
8 | Mario Party 3 | Nintendo 64 | Hudson Soft | Nintendo | Party | 767,000 | ||
9 | Super Robot Taisen Alpha (Super Robot Wars Alpha) | PlayStation | Banpresoft | Banpresto | SRPG | 714,789 | ||
10 | Ridge Racer V | PlayStation 2 | Namco | Namco | Racing | 689,000 |
In the United States, the following titles were the top ten best-selling home video games of 2000.
Rank | Title | Platform(s) | Publisher | Genre | Sales | Revenue | Inflation | ||
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1 | Pokémon Gold / Silver | GBC | Nintendo | RPG | 4,000,000+ | + | $+ | ||
2 | Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow | Game Boy | Nintendo | RPG | + | + | $+ | [49] | |
3 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater | PS1, N64 | Activision | Sports | $ | ||||
4 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | PS1, DC | Activision | Sports | + | $+ | |||
5 | Pokémon Stadium | N64 | Nintendo | Strategy | 1,701,820 | $ | |||
6 | Madden NFL 2001 | PS2, PS1 | EA Sports | Sports | + | $+ | |||
7 | The Sims | PC | EA | Life sim | 1,207,313 | $50,773,114 | $ | [50] | |
8 | N64 | Nintendo | Action-adventure | 1,206,489 | $ | ||||
9 | Gran Turismo 2 | PS1 | Sony | Racing sim | 1,155,469 | $ | |||
10 | Final Fantasy IX | PS1 | Square EA | RPG | 987,354 | $ | [51] |
The following titles were the year's top six highest-grossing home video game franchises in the United States, in terms of video game software sales revenue.[52]
Rank | Franchise | Publisher(s) | Sales revenue | Inflation | |
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1 | Pokémon | Nintendo, The Pokémon Company | $414,800,290 | $ | |
2 | Mario | Nintendo | $126,280,160 | $ | |
3 | The Legend of Zelda | Nintendo | $93,103,817 | $ | |
4 | Final Fantasy | Squaresoft, Sony, Eidos Interactive, Square EA | $61,899,388 | $ | |
5 | Donkey Kong | Nintendo | $41,517,999 | $ | |
6 | Tomb Raider | Eidos Interactive | $28,874,777 | $ |
In Europe, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing home video games of 2000.[53]
Rank | Title | Platform(s) | Publisher | Genre | Sales revenue | Inflation |
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1 | Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow | Game Boy | Nintendo | RPG | €,000,000 | $ |
2 | Pokémon Stadium | Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | Strategy | €76,000,000 | $ |
3 | Gran Turismo 2 | PlayStation | Sony | Racing sim | €63,000,000 | $ |
4 | FIFA 2001 | Multi-platform | EA Sports | Sports | €44,000,000 | $ |
5 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | Multi-platform | Eidos | Quiz | €43,000,000 | $ |
6 | Pokémon Pinball | GBC | Nintendo | Pinball | €36,000,000 | $ |
The Sims | PC | EA | Life sim | €36,000,000 | $ | |
8 | Driver 2 | PlayStation | Infogrames | Driving | €27,000,000 | $ |
Nintendo 64 | Nintendo | Action-adventure | €27,000,000 | $ | ||
10 | PlayStation | THQ | Wrestling | €25,000,000 | $ | |
Diablo II | PC | Havas | Action RPG | €25,000,000 | $ |
In the United Kingdom and France, the following titles were the best-selling home video games of 2000.
Rank | United Kingdom[54] [55] | France | ||
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Title | Platform(s) | Sales[56] [57] | ||
1 | Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | Multi-platform | 1,000,000[58] | Pokémon Yellow[59] |
2 | Pokémon Red / Blue / Yellow | Game Boy | 900,000+ | rowspan="4" |
3 | Gran Turismo 2 | PlayStation | 300,000+ | |
4 | PlayStation | rowspan="2" | ||
5 | WWF SmackDown! |
In Germany, the following titles were the best-selling home video games of 2000.[60]
Rank | Game Boy | Sales | PlayStation | Sales | PC | Sales | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Pokémon Red / Blue | 800,000+ | Gran Turismo 2 | 200,000+ | Diablo II | 200,000+ | |
2 | Pokémon Yellow | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | 100,000+ | The Sims | 100,000+ | ||
3 | Pokémon Pinball | 100,000+ | Sudden Strike | 100,000+ |
In Australia, the following titles were the top ten best-selling console games of 2000.[61]
Rank | Title | Platform | Developer | Publisher | Genre | |
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1 | Pokémon Gold | Game Boy Color | Game Freak | Nintendo | RPG | |
2 | Pokémon Silver | |||||
3 | Pokémon Stadium | Nintendo 64 | Nintendo EAD | Nintendo | Strategy | |
4 | Gran Turismo 2 | PlayStation | Polyphony Digital | Sony | Racing sim | |
5 | Pokémon Yellow | Game Boy Color | Game Freak | Nintendo | RPG | |
6 | Nintendo 64 | LucasArts | LucasArts | Racing | ||
7 | Pokémon Blue | Game Boy | Game Freak | Nintendo | RPG | |
8 | Donkey Kong 64 | Nintendo 64 | Rare | Nintendo | Platformer | |
9 | Pokémon Red | Game Boy | Game Freak | Nintendo | RPG | |
10 | Perfect Dark | Nintendo 64 | Rare | Nintendo | First-person shooter |
In Japan, the following titles were the top ten highest-grossing arcade games of 2000.[62]
Rank | Title | Developer | Manufacturer | Type | Genre | Points | |
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1 | Virtua Striker 2 ver. 99 / 2000 | Sega AM2 | Sega | Software | Sports | 5753 | |
2 | Tekken Tag Tournament | Namco | Namco | Software | Fighting | 3734 | |
3 | Samba de Amigo | Sonic Team | Sega | Dedicated | Rhythm | 3204 | |
4 | Power Smash (Virtua Tennis) | Sega AM3 | Sega | Software | Sports | 3075 | |
5 | Mr. Driller | Namco | Namco | Software | Puzzle | 2951 | |
6 | Derby Owners Club | Sega AM3 | Sega | Dedicated | Simulation | 2766 | |
7 | Time Crisis 2 | Namco | Namco | Dedicated | Light gun shooter | 2741 | |
8 | The House of the Dead 2 | Sega AM1 | Sega | Dedicated | Light gun shooter | 2700 | |
9 | Photo & Seal Kilala | Make Software | Make Software | Other | Purikura | 2579 | |
10 | SNK | SNK | Software | Fighting | 2439 |
Month | Day(s) | Event |
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January | 7 | Publisher ASC Games shut down due to financial issues arising with the ongoing delay of their upcoming game, .[63] |
Digital Illusions CE acquires Refraction Games and 90% of Synergenix Interactive. | ||
February | 4 | First annual Dreamcast Championships, featuring the game Sonic Adventure. |
Electronic Arts acquired DreamWorks Interactive, the games division of DreamWorks SKG, becoming EA Los Angeles.[64] | ||
March | Game Network hosts the second annual Independent Games Festival (IGF). | |
April | 14 | Reuters reports that the PlayStation 2 console would have export controls placed on it by the Trade Ministry of Japan as the PS2 is sophisticated enough for military applications.[65] [66] [67] [68] |
Nintendo sells its 100 millionth Game Boy / Game Boy Color handheld game console. | ||
May | 11 | The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences hosts the third Annual Interactive Achievement Awards and inducts Hironobu Sakaguchi of Square into the AIAS Hall of Fame. |
11–13 | The sixth annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is held[69] along with the third annual Game Critics Awards for the Best of E3. | |
24 | Looking Glass Studios was shut down.[70] | |
June | 19 | Microsoft acquired Bungie.[71] |
26 | Computer Game Developers Association is renamed to International Game Developers Association. | |
30 | Nintendo's Satellaview system ceases to receive broadcasts. | |
Sony acquired Verant Interactive.[72] | ||
July | Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association hosts first annual Executive Summit. | |
August | 31 | THQ acquired Volition.[73] |
Ubi Soft acquired Red Storm Entertainment. | ||
September | 10 | Sega.com launches SegaNet, their online console gaming network. |
October | 7–15 | The World Cyber Games Challenge takes place in South Korea. |
November | 12 | The Sega World Sydney amusement park closes its doors for good after three years of operation. |
December | 15 | Nvidia acquires 3dfx Interactive.[74] |
Unknown | British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) hosts its third annual BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards for multimedia technologies; 7 of 20 awards went to video games. David Bowie was awarded, in part, for his contributions to the video game . | |
Mattel sells The Learning Company to Gores Technology Group.[75] | ||
All of Sega's internal consumer research & development divisions become individual developer companies. | ||
21-6 Productions was formed. | ||
PopCap Games was formed. | ||
Yeti Interactive was formed. | ||
Team Liquid was formed. |
Series with new installments include Age of Empires, Banjo-Kazooie, Command & Conquer, Diablo, Excite, Final Fantasy, Grandia, The Legend of Zelda, Madden NFL, Marvel vs. Capcom, Mega Man Legends, Monkey Island, Mortal Kombat, Need for Speed, Persona, Pokémon, Resident Evil, Ridge Racer, Sonic the Hedgehog, Spyro, Tekken, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Tony Hawk's, and Wario.
In addition, 2000 saw the introduction of several new properties, including Counter-Strike, Deus Ex, Hitman, Jet Set Radio, Kessen, Mario Tennis, Midnight Club, Paper Mario, Perfect Dark, The Sims, SSX, TimeSplitters, and Total War.
Release | Title | Windows | 5th Gen | 6th Gen | Handheld | Arcade |
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January 24 | Crazy Taxi | (2002) | DC, GCN (2001), PS2 (2001) | (1999) | ||
January 24 | Mario Party 2 | |||||
January 27 | Dragon Warrior Monsters | |||||
January 31 | Nox | |||||
February 3 | DC, GCN (2003), PS2 (2001) | |||||
February 4 | The Sims | |||||
February 10 | Vagrant Story | PS1 | ||||
February 19 | SNK Gals' Fighters | |||||
February 29 | BattleSphere | |||||
February 29 | Dead or Alive 2 | (1999) | ||||
February 29 | GBA (2004) | |||||
February 29 | DC | |||||
February 29 | ||||||
February 29 | Pokémon Stadium[76] | |||||
March 4 | Kessen | PS2 | ||||
March 21 | Wario Land 3 | GBC | ||||
March 23 | ||||||
March 24 | ||||||
March 27 | Soldier of Fortune | |||||
March 30 | Final Fight Revenge | (1999) | ||||
March 31 | Tech Romancer | |||||
March 31 | MDK2 | DC, PS2 (2001) | ||||
March 31 | Starlancer | DC | ||||
April 4 | ||||||
April 27 | N64 | |||||
April 28 | ||||||
April 30 | Excitebike 64 | |||||
April 30 | The Misadventures of Tron Bonne | |||||
April 30 | Wild Arms 2 | |||||
May 4 | 4 Wheel Thunder | |||||
May 5 | ||||||
May 9 | Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six | |||||
May 14 | Bomberman Max | |||||
May 16 | SimCity 3000 Unlimited | |||||
May 22 | Earth 2150 | |||||
May 22 | Metal Slug 2nd Mission | |||||
May 22 | Perfect Dark | N64 | ||||
May 24 | Daikatana | |||||
May 28 | ||||||
June 1 | Evolva | |||||
June 1 | Ground Control | |||||
June 4 | Space Channel 5 | |||||
June 7 | ||||||
June 7 | ||||||
June 12 | Tomb Raider | |||||
June 13 | ||||||
June 13 | The Legend Of Dragoon | |||||
June 22 | ||||||
June 22 | ||||||
June 23 | Deus Ex | |||||
June 28 | Diablo II | |||||
June 28 | Xtreme Sports | GBC | ||||
June 29 | ||||||
June 29 | Icewind Dale | |||||
June 29 | Jet Set Radio | DC | ||||
June 29 | Marvel vs Capcom 2 | DC | ||||
June 30 | ||||||
June 30 | ||||||
July 3 | Dark Reign 2 | |||||
July 13 | Guilty Gear X | PS2 (2001),DC(2003) | GBA (2002) | |||
July 18 | Threads of Fate | PS1 | ||||
July 26 | The King of Fighters 2000 | DC, PS2, PS4, Xbox 1 | ||||
July 29 | Strider 2 | |||||
July 31 | Spirit of Speed 1937 | |||||
August 1 | Arcatera: The Dark Brotherhood | |||||
August 1 | Linux (2001), Mac OS | |||||
August 3 | Shin Sangoku Musou (Japan) | |||||
August 15 | Chrono Cross | |||||
August 24 | ||||||
August 26 | Dragon Quest VII (Japan) | PS1 | ||||
August 28 | Mario Tennis | |||||
August 30 | WWF Royal Rumble | |||||
September 1 | Spider-Man | PS1, GBC, N64 | DC (2001) | |||
September 12 | Parasite Eve II | PS1 | ||||
September 13 | Lego Stunt Rally | |||||
September 15 | PS2 (2001) | |||||
September 19 | Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 | N64 (2001), PS1 | DC | GBA (2001), GBC | ||
September 24 | ||||||
September 24 | ||||||
September 25 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | |||||
September 25 | Vampire Hunter D | |||||
September 26 | Destruction Derby Raw | |||||
September 26 | NHL 2001 | PS2 | ||||
September 27 | Dragon Warrior I & II | |||||
September 28 | F1 Championship Season 2000 | PS1 | PS2 | GBC | ||
October | ||||||
October 4 | ||||||
October 5 | Skies of Arcadia | DC | ||||
October 15 | Pokémon Gold and Silver | GBC | ||||
October 19 | PS1, N64 | PS2, DC | GBC | |||
October 22 | Quake III Arena | |||||
October 23 | ||||||
October 23 | TimeSplitters | PS2 | ||||
October 24 | Mega Man Legends 2 | |||||
October 25 | GBA (2001) | |||||
October 25 | Ridge Racer V | |||||
October 25 | PS1 | |||||
October 26 | FantaVision | |||||
October 26 | Madden NFL 2001 | |||||
October 26 | SSX | |||||
October 26 | Tekken Tag Tournament | |||||
October 27 | Bust-a-Move Millennium | |||||
October 27 | Rune | PS2, Mac OS, Linux | ||||
October 31 | The Grinch | |||||
November 6 | PS1 (2002) | DC | ||||
November 6 | Crash Bash | PS1 | ||||
November 6 | Incredible Crisis | PS1 | ||||
November 6 | The World Is Not Enough | PS1, N64 | GBC | |||
November 6 | Shenmue | DC | ||||
November 8 | Escape from Monkey Island | PS2 (2001) | ||||
November 9 | PS2 (2002) | |||||
November 9 | Counter-Strike (video game) | Xbox, Retail and Steam (2003) | Linux, Mac OS X (2013) | |||
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