Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts for PS2 was once again the #1- rented ...
Eidos’s Hitman: Contracts for PS2 was once again the #1- rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data Thurs. for the week ended May 16. Rentrak said the title earned an additional $263,667 in…
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its 4th week, for $1.13 million to date. The Xbox version of the game, meanwhile, was #7 (down 3 in its 4th week, $145,982 in the week, $636,211 to date). The only other publisher with more than one Top 10 SKU was Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games, whose Red Dead Revolver for PS2 was #2 (up one in its 2nd week, $238,810 and $415,785). The Xbox version was again #8 ($137,889 and $249,006). Electronic Arts (EA), which had dominated the top 10 for months, had to settle for only one top 10 title for the 2nd consecutive week: Need for Speed Underground for PS2 at #5 again in its 26th week ($149,196 and $7.8 million). The only other Xbox title was Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow at #9 (down 3 in its 8th week, $131,282 and $1.62 million). Rounding out the top 10 were all PS2 titles: Midway’s NBA Ballers at #3 (down one in its 6th week, $218,046 and $1.52 million), Sony Computer Entertainment’s Syphon Filter: Omega Strain at #4 (up 22 in its 2nd week, $168,512 and $229,033), Vivendi Universal Games’s Van Helsing at #6 (up 10, 2nd week, $147,080 and $238,399) and Capcom’s Onimusha 3: Demon Siege for PS2 at #10 again ($116,934 and $292,003).