2009 saw many new installments in established video game franchises, such as Assassin's Creed II, ', ', Wii Sports Resort, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Resident Evil 5, Left 4 Dead 2, Forza Motorsport 3, ', The Sims 3, Madden NFL 10, NBA 2K10, and FIFA 10. New intellectual properties include ', Bayonetta, Borderlands, Demon's Souls, ', Infamous, Just Dance, Minecraft, Plants vs. Zombies, and Prototype.
The following is a list of game consoles released in 2009.
This year just saw revision models of current game consoles; such as PlayStation 3 Slim, the PSP Go, the worldwide release of the Nintendo DSi (which initially in Japan the previous year), and the Nintendo DSi XL (named the "DSi LL" in Japan).
The following are the top ten best-selling games of 2009 in terms of worldwide retail sales.
Metacritic (MC) and GameRankings (GR) are aggregators of video game journalism reviews.