The PS2 version of Need for Speed Most Wanted from Electronic Art...
The PS2 version of Need for Speed Most Wanted from Electronic Arts (EA), in its 10th week available, was again the top-rented videogame in the U.S., according to Rentrak’s preliminary Home Video Essentials data for the week ended Jan.…
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22. But the Xbox version of the game fell to #9 from #3 the previous week. It was the only top 10 game SKU not for PS2. EA had one other game in the top 10: The PS2 version of Madden NFL 06 at #2, up 2 in its 24th week. Activision and Take-Two Interactive each had 2 SKUs in the top 10 -- all for PS2. Activision’s were Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland at #6 (up 6 in its 14th week) and Gun at #10 (down 3, 11th week). Take-Two’s were Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas at #5 (up 13, 65th week) and Midnight Club 3: Dub Edition at #8 (up 16, 41st week). Rounding out the top 10 were LucasArts Entertainment’s Star Wars Battlefront II at #3 (down one, 12th week), THQ’s WWE SmackDown Vs. Raw 2006 at #4 (up 2, 10th week) and 50 Cent: Bulletproof from Vivendi Universal Games (VUG) at #7 (down 2, 9th week). Separately, VUG said it had sold more than one million units of the latter game since its global release in Nov… Most Wanted was also -- in its 9th week -- again the best-selling game in the U.K., according to the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Assn.’s Chart Track data for the week ended Jan. 21. EA had 2 other games in the top 10: The Sims 2 at #3 (down one, 35th week) and FIFA 06 at #5 again in its 17th week. There were no new releases in the top 10. The only other publisher with more than one title in the top 10 was Activision, with 2: Call of Duty 2 at #9 (up 6, 9th week) and Gun at #10 (up 2, 11th week). Rounding out the top 10 were Ubisoft’s Peter Jackson’s King Kong at #2 (up 2, 10th week), Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer 5 at #4 (down one, 14th week), Take-Two’s Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for PSP at #6 again in its 12th week, Battlefront II at #7 (up 6 , 13th week) and SmackDown! Vs. Raw 2006 at #8 (up 2, 11th week).