2003 saw many sequels and prequels in video games, such as Tony Hawk's Underground, Madden NFL 2004, NBA Live 2004, ESPN NBA Basketball, ', Final Fantasy X-2, ', ', ', Sonic Heroes, Postal 2, ', ', and WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain. New intellectual properties included Beyond Good & Evil, , Call of Duty, , Drakengard, Manhunt, PlanetSide, TrackMania, ', and Viewtiful Joe. The year's best-selling video game worldwide was Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire, the fifth time a Pokémon games was the annual worldwide top-seller (since 1998).
This is a list of all game hardware released in 2003.
Nintendo released the Game Boy Advance SP, the second & declared as the definitive model of the Game Boy Advance (it's also been declared as the best entry in the Game Boy family overall). The GBA SP was the first handheld Nintendo console to have a rechargeable battery powered by an AC Adapter instead of using AA batteries.
Computer games continue to lose ground to console video games with a US sales drop of 14% in 2003. Total 2003 entertainment software sales in the United States grew slightly to US$7 billion; console sales increased to $5.8 billion and computer games accounted for the remaining $1.2 billion.
The dominant video game consoles in 2003 were:
The dominant handheld systems in 2003 were:
Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.
The following video game releases in 2002 entered Famitsu magazine's "Platinum Hall of Fame" and received Famitsu scores of at least 36 out of 40.