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2007 in video games

2007 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as Madden NFL 08, NBA Live 08, NBA 2K8, Tony Hawk's Proving Ground, WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2008, Super Mario Galaxy, ', Halo 3, God of War II, Team Fortress 2, ', ', ', ', and '. New intellectual properties included Assassin's Creed, BioShock, Crackdown, Crysis, Mass Effect, Portal, Rock Band, Skate, The Darkness, The Witcher, and Uncharted.

The year has been retrospectively considered one of the best and most influential in video game history due to the release of numerous critically acclaimed, commercially successful and influential titles across all platforms and genres at the time and remarked the birth of new video game franchises. The year's best-selling video game console was the Nintendo DS. The year's most critically acclaimed title was Super Mario Galaxy, which is ranked Metacritic's fifth highest-scoring game of all time. The year's best-selling home video game worldwide was Wii Sports for the Wii, and other critically acclaimed titles such as BioShock, The Orange Box, ' and Halo 3.

Legend

Hardware releases

Hardware sales data

  • Japan sales data based on figures from Enterbrain
  • North America sales data based on figures from the NPD Group
  • Europe sales data based on estimates from Electronic Arts

Highest selling video games (by region)

Worldwide

The following are the best-selling games of 2007 in terms of worldwide retail sales.

Japan

United States

  • United States sales data based on figures from the NPD Group

United Kingdom

Highest selling video games per platform (by region)

North America

  • Based on figures from the NPD Group via IGN; the games' publishers are listed in brackets

United Kingdom

  • Based on figures from Chart-Track; the games' publishers are listed in brackets

All time video game sales

United States

Note: This list only includes games that were released after NPD started tracking video game sales data in 1995.

Major awards

Critically acclaimed titles

Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.

Video game-based film and television releases

Events

Game releases in 2007

See also

Notes

References