Midway Games had its strongest U.S. videogame rental week in memo...
Midway Games had its strongest U.S. videogame rental week in memory, Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended April 18 showed Thurs. Rentrak said Midway had 3 SKUs in the top 10, led by #1 NBA…
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Ballers for PS2, which jumped 8 notches in its 2nd week available and earned an additional $307,509, for $476,452 to date. Midway’s other 2 SKUs were the Xbox version of NBA Ballers at #5 ($183,169 in the week, $265,971 to date) and The Suffering for PS2 at #9 in its 6th week ($146,259 and $574,133). Electronic Arts (EA) and Ubisoft each had 2 top 10 games. EA’s were Need for Speed Underground at #4 (up one in its 22nd week, $184,642 and $7.13 million) and Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #7 (down 3 its 9th week, $171,314 and $2.39 million) -- both for PS2. Ubisoft’s were Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow for Xbox at #2 (down one its 4th week, $242,531 and $982,227) and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield for PS2 at #3 (down one, 4th week, $186,704 and $778,665). Rounding out the top 10 were Take-Two Interactive’s Mafia for PS2 at #6 (up 3 in its 12th week, $178,917 and $3.27 million), Tecmo’s Ninja Gaiden for Xbox at #8 (down 2 in its 7th week, $162,669 and $1.70 million) and Nintendo’s Pokemon Colosseum for GameCube at #10 (down 3 its 4th week, $141,174 and $615,174).