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Top 100 Games of the 21st Century

Posted Aug 1, 2006 at 9:22PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii, PS3, Xbox 360 Tags: Colin Campbell, EA, Football, Joe Keiser, Madden, PS2
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The Colin Campbell and Joe Keiser of Next-Gen.Biz, who must have had some serious time on their hands, created what could be the most impressive list in gameland: The Top 100 Games (for the PS2/Xbox/GameCube platforms only) based on sales. We listed the Top 5 right here (starting at 5) and we'll tell you where you can read the whole honor roll later. Drum roll, please...

mario5. Super Smash Bros Melee
Nintendo/GameCube/December 2001
Estimated Sales: 3.2 million
Revenues: $125 million

Great marketing strategy is credited for this game's success. Of course, its great fighting gameplay didn't hurt it, either.


madden 4. Madden NFL 2004
EA/PS2/August 2003
Estimated Sales: 3.5 million
Revenues: $170 million

Named after Super Bowl-winning professional football coach for the Oakland Raiders during the 1970s, John Madden. The coach insisted he would only endorse a game as close to real life football as possible. Obviously, he signed up with EA.

gt33. Gran Turismo 3:A-Spec
SCEA/PS2/ July 2001
Estimated Sales: 3.8 million
Revenues: $120 million

GT3's killer app style, graphics and simulation-style driving mechanics are what a hungry PS2 market was looking for. The first PS2 pack-in title helped drive sales even further.


halo2. Halo
MS/Xbox/November 2001
Estimated Sales: 4.2 million
Revenues: $170 million

"Halo didnÂ’t just save the Xbox at launch. Halo is Xbox," say GameBiz. A great shooter gameplay, science fiction storyline, and addictive multiplayer made it one of those must-have titles.


gta1.Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Rockstar/PS2/October 2003
Estimated Sales: 7 Million
Revenues: $300 Million

Ruling the list is GTA:Vice City. While the gameplay alone could have sold millions, the company used controversial marketing strategy to make gamers ache for it.


If you want to know what other games made the cut, you can go read the full Next-Gen list right here.



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# Halo > Vice cityGuest 2006-08-01 22:35
Halo is a much better game then vice city in my opinion.

The storyline is better, the graphics are better and the fact that it could be played over and over in campaigne and multiplayer unlike vice city which never had anything that made me come back to it.



Halo the best game of all time.

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# UrghGuest 2006-08-01 22:37
Bad list. BAD LIST, VERY BAD. Madden, wtf? And there's even 50 Cent in there. While I think Halo is overrated piece of crap, it does deserve the first place because it became really big name. And I mean REALLY big name. It was the one to save Xbox.

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# WTF?!Guest 2006-08-01 22:45
where is ff7, ff6, halflife, mario64, goldeneye, perfect dark, doom and wolfenstein (there would be no *****ty halo without them), etc etc



that list is a *****in lump of *****e that was gouged out of the depths of bill gates armpit

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# think that list is just an ass kissing excerise for EAGuest 2006-08-01 23:00
where the hell is super mario 64 or zelda ocarina of time

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# Umm...Guest 2006-08-01 23:14
To poster #3 and #4, this top 100 was about games which were released in 2000 or after that.

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# ...Guest 2006-08-01 23:28
Still sad to see what crappy games sell well. Vice City is sooo overrated, but I expected as much. Seeing a Madden game up there hurts though.



With a much bigger PS2 userbase than xbox or gamecube it is no surprise in the end that big selling PS2 games are way up.

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# #3Guest 2006-08-02 00:08
Wow, I know people are stupid, but I never thought I'd find one who doesn't know what "21st century" means. First time for everything huh?

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# List is wrongDeletegmc 2006-08-02 00:15
According to wikipedia GT3 has sold 14.36 million and has been the best selling game on the ps2. Vice City sold 13.63million. The whole list is here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best_selling_computer_and_video_games



And according to that this list is bullsh*t

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# wellGuest 2006-08-02 00:33
Halo 2 sold more than Halo 1. THEY DON"T EVEN list halo 1..yet they repeat the same MAdden 2004, 2002..throughout the damn list. BOOO.



Plus the Halos and GTA sold more than that list says.

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# WHAT!!!Guest 2006-08-02 01:27
WHERES RESIDENT EVIL 4!!!

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# vGuest 2006-08-02 01:46
Halo is the crappest, most overrated piece of crap ever. noob box owners dont know a real fps.

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# try readingGuest 2006-08-02 02:08
This isn't about what game is better than another.



This is about top games in SALES.



Got that?



SALES.





Now, if you have a discrepancy about the SALES something made, fine, do your own research and present it to the world. If not, stop spamming these comment boards.

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# WowGuest 2006-08-02 02:20
Wow, you have to be f*cking stupid not to read the part where it says (gamecube/xbox/ps2). "Where's super mario 64" stupid f*ckbag.



But I would like to know where Halo 2 is, and yea I could see madden selling that well.



Also, wiki isn't always right, and they might have been talking about the series as a whole, I'm not sure though.

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# bahh!hush404 2006-08-02 02:45
SSBM at number 5? Vice City at number 1? wTF!



Oh and any moron could come up with a list of their fav games, it doesn't mean jack sh_t.

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# SALESGuest 2006-08-02 03:46
SALES

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# some people are idiotsGuest 2006-08-02 04:16
IT'S SALES

SALES, SALES, SALES, SALES.



GAMES LIST IS BASED ON SALES OF THE GAME. READ IT BEFORE YOU POST AND LOOK LIKE AN IDIOT.



A FEW MORE TIMES



SALES, SALES, SALES, SALES

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# wtfGuest 2006-08-02 04:20
if its based on SALES SALES SALES SALES



then wheres Halo 2.....Im damn sure more copies of Halo 2 were sold than Vice City ?

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# i believe more on wikipediaGuest 2006-08-02 04:31
come on even FFx sold more than halo. And i think halo is soooooooo overrated ****sh*t.

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# ..Guest 2006-08-02 04:47
YEAH ...***** that list , they dont even have mario 3 or galaga on thier , and wheres monkey island 3? lol

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# WHAT>>>>?Guest 2006-08-02 05:20
ok there people are dumb.....i could think of another 100 games that are better then 90 percent of those. i mean shenmue wasent even in the list at all.. i mean the incredibles game was in the list... WTF.... and what about MGS:3.... or San Andreas...or even halo 2 should have meen in their...

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# yesssssssss!!!! Guest 2006-08-02 06:48
GTA #1 you stupid halo fanboys. in yo face

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# sfdGuest 2006-08-02 07:09
THIS LIST BLOWs! who MADE THIS?

and Halo is a good franchise but GTA apealed to people who didnt just like shooting aliens.



they liked shooting PROSTITUTES and STEALING CARS.



although i played both game for hours

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# the list is sooo wrongtwelve 2006-08-02 07:22
I believe that this list is so very wrong but I think its just based on sales which makes it also very accurate. as vice city was a multi platform title its got much more sales than halo which is just xbox and then later pc.



I'm very pleased to see kingdom hearts in the top 10 tho.



Things like 50cent bullet proof and spongebob have no place on any best list, except the best waste of a game and best failures.

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# Worst list ever!Guest 2006-08-02 08:40
The guy probably invented all the stupid sale numbers and put his favorites instead. What an idiot, Madden 2004 selling more than Halo 2 or Super Smash Bros, whatever.

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# the bad games are there...senjutsu 2006-08-02 08:47
gran turismo was good, not a all legendary!

and vice city was really cool, but san andreas was WAY better!



this list is crap, madden, a lendary game? madden games are crap, halo was cool, nothing special there and super smash bros? I never liked that!



personally:



Resident evil 4

GTA san andreas

Kingdom Hearts II

God of war

Dragon quest 8



oh yeah and... I know it's a shame, but I really like Tomb Raider Legend also ( never liked tomb raider till this one )

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# the list is not done wellsenjutsu 2006-08-02 08:51
I'm sure the list exclude sells that's from from US, this is GAY, nothing less then GAY! japanese games are the best, and japanese buyers are important, this is too much gay!

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# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Guest 2006-08-02 10:38
japanese games are Sh*t

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# @8Guest 2006-08-02 10:55
I thought the numbers looked wrong. I don't know where they got their "facts", but I call BS on thier supposed sales figures.



Plus, like someone already said, why do they call up multiple versions of Madden, but every other franchise seems to get only one spot? It looks like some douche just slapped some numbers on his personal top 100 and called it sales figures. This list fails. Reroll.

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# WOT T3H FOOK!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!Guest 2006-08-02 11:00
WHERE THE FOKC IS SPYRO THE DRAGON!!!!!!!!! 11!1!

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# OMFGTheDude 2006-08-02 11:54
DO ANY OF YOU IDIOTS KNOW HOW TO READ? Like god and swifty said this is based on sales. Oh and if you actually look at those, you know words, and not the pictures is says estimated sales. And sorry Swifty but Vice City did sell more than Halo 2, almost twice as much. Why, because it's a great game, period. And way more people own a PS2 compared to XBOX. Halo 2 sold well because lets face it, it's the only halfway decent game on XBOX.

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# Bull*****Guest 2006-08-02 14:34
Why arent there ANY PC games..... Bah console only laaame



Talk about a ***** list, the alot of the games listed arent even 1 -> 10 worthy. Halo is really not that good.... (though it did save the Xbox)

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# RepliesGuest 2006-08-02 18:24
This is based on SALES IN THE UNITED STATES. I repeat, SALES IN THE UNITED STATES. The sales numbers are all accurate. The numbers you're getting off Wikipedia are both WRONG and WORLDWIDE figures. Again, these rankings are for SALES IN THE UNITED STATES. They are all accurate. I'm the resident QJ sales-figures guy ;)



Also, PC and handheld top 100s will be coming soon.

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# .....Guest 2006-08-02 20:49
"I'm sure the list exclude sells that's from from US, this is GAY, nothing less then GAY! japanese games are the best, and japanese buyers are important, this is too much gay!"

This poster is not worth more typing than the following (a response to his posts in general): You are a dumb*****.



Resonable list, other than Madden. It *****ing ruins me when I realize how much these repackaged sports games sell.

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# Oblivious FanboysA Hero 2006-08-03 04:26
All these games are some of the best games on the market in my opinion. I have owned a PS2, Xbox, PSP and an Xbox 360 and played most of these games on one console or another. Some stupid 10 year old kids just post whatever they want on these forums, while managing to make no sense whatsoever. I stand behind the QJ staff, I believe they have the numbers right and most people are calling their bluff becuase they did not read what the stats are supporting.



P.S. People keep b*tching about games like Halo sucking and GTA being so much better, but thats just 'cause you are such avid fanboys about one company or the other that you cant pull your heads out of your a*sses to open your eyes and actully PLAY the games on OTHER CONSOLES.

Whew... I feel better now....

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# why?Guest 2006-08-03 14:58
With many good FPS why HALO is on the list?Half Life 2 is better in my opinion.HALO popular only amongside XBOX fanboys and US gamers.Ask for example Japanese gamers are the know that famous HALO or MASTERCHIEF?They never heard of it! (Sorry my english is not so good)

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# ...Guest 2006-08-03 16:30
by the way Halo came out in 2001 and gta vc came out in 2003 and it still sold more.

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# IdiotsGuest 2006-08-03 17:50
I know QJ is supposed to be diplomatic, but this list is a piece of trash.

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