In its 2nd week, Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts moved up one notch to...
In its 2nd week, Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts moved up one notch to become the top-rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended May 2 showed. Rentrak said the game earned…
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an additional $373,558 in the week, for $603,970 to date. The Xbox version of the game was #3 ($215,395 in the week, $334,081 to date). Midway Games and Ubisoft also had 2 SKUs in the top 10 for the week. Midway’s were NBA Ballers for PS2 at #2 (down one, 4th week, $304,580 in the week, $1.08 million to date) and the Xbox version of it at #6 (down one, 4th week, $169,375 in the week, $609,683 to date). Ubisoft’s were Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow for Xbox at #5 (down 2, 6th week, $181,974 and $1.38 million) and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield for PS2 at #7 (down one, 6th week, $159,200 and $1.11 million). But Electronic Arts (EA) again had the most titles in the top 10, with 3, all for PS2: Need for Speed Underground at #4 again in its 24th week ($194,527 and $7.51 million), James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing at #8 (down one, 11th week, $148,641 and $2.7 million) and Fight Night 2004 at #10 in its 4th week ($133,662 and $475,553). Rounding out the top 10 was Take-Two Interactive’s Mafia for PS2 at #9 (down one, 14th week, $139,231 and $3.57 million). Hitman: Contracts was also the #1-selling software title in the U.K. in its first week, the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Assn. (ELSPA) said ChartTrack data for the week ended May 1 showed. Codemasters had 2 games in the top 10: ToCA Race Driver 2 at #3 (down 2 from a week ago) and England International Football 2004 at #8 in its first week. But EA again had the most titles in the top 10, with 3: Fight Night 2004 at #2 in its first week, the Bond game at #7 (down 2 in its 10th week) and FIFA 2004 at #10 (down 3 in its 28th week). Other games in the top 10 were Sega’s Sonic Heroes at #5 (down 2 in its 13th week), Ubisoft’s Pandora Tomorrow at #6 (down 2 in its 6th week) and Acclaim Entertainment’s World Championship Rugby at #9 (down 3 in its 4th week).