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In its 4th week available, the PS2 version of Madden NFL 2005 fro...

In its 4th week available, the PS2 version of Madden NFL 2005 from Electronic Arts (EA) was again the top- rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Sept. 5…

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showed. Rentrak said the title earned an additional $422,407, for $1.96 million to date. The Xbox version of the game dropped one to #5, earning an additional $198,725 for $939,501 to date. EA had 3 other top 10 PS2 SKUs: NCAA Football 2005 at #3 (up 2, 8th week, $219,304 in the week and $2.55 million to date), NASCAR 2005: Chase for the Cup at #7 in its first week ($126,041) and Need for Speed Underground at #9 (up one, 42nd week, $122,374 and $10.34 million). Activision had 2 top 10 SKUs: The PS2 version of Spider-Man 2 at #2 again in its 10th week ($311,432 and $5.62 million) and the Xbox version at #8 (down one, $125,991 and $2.62 million). Rounding out the top 10 were one game each from Atari (DRIV3R for PS2 at #4, down one, 11th week, $215,907 and $4.23 million), Take-Two Interactive’s Rockstar Games (Red Dead Revolver for PS2 at #6 again, 18th week, $164,512 and $4.42 million) and Ubisoft (Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Black Arrow at #10, down 2, 5th week, $121,320 and $484,836).