In its 2nd week available, Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Underground 2...
In its 2nd week available, Activision’s Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 on PS2 moved up one notch to become the #1- rented videogame in the U.S., Rentrak said its preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Oct. 17…
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showed. Rentrak said the game earned an additional $443,777 in the week, for $817,263 to date. Activision had 2 other SKUs in the top 10: X-Men: Legends on PS2 at #7 (down one in its 4th week, $247,589 in the week, $836,683 to date) and the Xbox version of Tony Hawk’s Underground 2 at #8 (up 6 in its 2nd week, $229,548 and $416,596). Last week’s #1 title -- Star Wars: Battlefront from LucasArts Entertainment on PS2 -- dropped to #3 in its 4th week ($339,795 and $1.53 million). The Xbox version dropped 2 to #9 ($227,384 and $1.05 million). Midway and Electronic Arts (EA) each had 2 SKUs in the top 10. Midway’s were Mortal Kombat: Deception on PS2 at #2 (up one in its 2nd week, $396,590 and $746,283) and the Xbox version at #6 (up 4, $283,419 and $505,670). EA’s were both for PS2 -- Def Jam: Fight for N.Y. at #4 again in its 4th week ($303,845 and $1.33 million) and Madden NFL 2005 at #5 again in its 10th week ($290,159 and $3.90 million). Microsoft’s Xbox game Fable was #10 (down 2 in its 5th week, $226,692 and $1.24 million).