Spider-Man 2’s 7 weeks of dominance on Rentrak’s top 10 videogame...
Spider-Man 2’s 7 weeks of dominance on Rentrak’s top 10 videogame rental chart came to an end as Electronic Arts (EA) scored a predictable touchdown with Madden NFL 2005 in its first week. Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video…
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Essentials data for the week ended Aug. 15 showed that the PS2 version of Madden was the #1-rented title in the U.S., earning $558,052. The PS2 version of Activision’s Spider-Man 2 dropped to #2, earning an additional $440,963 for $4.59 million to date. The Xbox version of Madden was #4 ($277,521) and EA had 2 other PS2 games in the top 10: NCAA Football 2005 at #5 (down 3 in its 5th week, $240,333 and $1.95 million) and Need for Speed Underground at #8 (down one, 39th week, $137,443 and $9.99 million). The Xbox version of Spider-Man 2 dropped 3 to #7 ($189,013 and $2.21 million). Atari and Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games also each had 2 top 10 SKUs. Atari’s were the PS2 version of DRIV3R at #3 again in its 8th week ($282,860 and $3.57 million) and the Xbox version at #9 (down 3, $136,666 and $1.91 million). Take-Two’s were the PS2 version of Red Dead Revolver at #6 (down one in its 15th week, $198,013 and $3.91 million) and the Xbox version at #10 (down one, $100,106 and $2.21 million). Separately, the NPD Group said NCAA Football 2005 for PS2 was the top-selling videogame of July in the U.S., followed by ESPN NFL 2K5 for PS2 from Sega and Take-Two Interactive at #2, Spider-Man 2 for PS2 at #3, the Xbox version of ESPN at #4 and the Xbox version of NCAA at #5. Six games in the top 10 were for PS2 and 6 for Game Boy Advance vs. 5 for Xbox and 3 for GameCube. Four titles were from Activision, while Atari, EA and Nintendo each had 3.