Electronic Arts (EA) again dominated the top 10 videogame rental ...
Electronic Arts (EA) again dominated the top 10 videogame rental chart in the U.S., Rentrak’s Home Video Essentials preliminary data for the week ended Nov. 23 showed. Five EA games were in the top 10, led by Medal of…
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Honor: Rising Sun for PS2, which again was the #1-rented title. Rentrak said the game earned $615,804 in the week, increasing its total rental earnings to $1.27 million. The other 4 EA games in the top 10 were Need for Speed Underground for PS2 at #3 in its first week ($330,349), the Xbox version of Rising Sun at #5 (up 3, earning $247,276 in the week and $523,801 to date), Madden NFL 2004 for PS2 at #8 (up 2, $224,470 and $4.15 million), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King for PS2 at #10 (down 3, $202,003 and $538,205). PS2 again was the dominant hardware player in the top 10. The only other game in the top 10 not for Sony’s console was Take-Two Interactive’s Grand Theft Auto double pack at #9 (down 5, $205,471 and $777,889). The only other publisher with more than one game in the top 10 was Activision, whose True Crime: Streets of L.A. was #2 (up one, $346,358 and $1.01 million) and Tony Hawk’s Underground was #4 (down 2, $319,317 and $1.55 million). Rounding out the top 10 were Sony’s SOCOM II: U.S. Navy SEALs at #6 (down one, $245,891 and $898,363) and THQ’s WWE Smackdown! Here Comes the Pain at #7 (down one, $227,972 $1.07 million). On the movie rental chart for the same week, Rentrak said Paramount’s Lara Croft: Cradle of Life, in its first full week of availability, was the #1-rented DVD, earning $5.13 million in rentals in the week on DVD and $5.21 million to date.