This week's GameFly video game rental charts for North America, specifically relating to games rented via the games-by-mail service for the week ending August 29th, show popularity over multiple game formats.
Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction has ultimately destroyed the overall rental charts this week; the popular license and overall positive reviews have made it a hit on nearly all platforms, and it debuts at #1 on the charts. Slipping to #2 from last week but maintaining a fairly high position is
Darkwatch, while
Madden NFL 06 remains in third place.
The Xbox-only charts are a mere mirror of the overall rankings:
Incredible Hulk,
Darkwatch, and then
Madden. The PS2 charts are also rather similar, with
Incredible Hulk leading the charge and
Darkwatch lurking in the shadows at #2. In third place on the PS2 charts, however, is
God of War rather than
Madden.
The only main platform where
Incredible Hulk didn't hit #1 straightaway is, naturally, the GameCube.
Geist is still on top there, while last week's other game release,
Sonic Gems Collection, shows up at #2.
Hulk eventually gets around to charting down at the #3 spot. The Game Boy Advance chart is a little more static, with
Dragon Ball GT: Transformation still reigning over
Pokémon Emerald and
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap.
Some new faces show themselves on both of the newer handhelds:
Death Jr. remains #1 on the PSP chart from last week, and
Namco Museum Battle Collection debuts at #2.
Coded Arms rounds out the top of the PSP charts at #3. On the Nintendo DS, puppy times are here again --
Nintendogs manages to take both of the top two slots, as well as #4. The top breed is
Dachshund and Friends, while
Lab and Friends is slightly less well loved at #2. Stinky ol' Chihuahuas failed to overcome #3's
Advance Wars for an all-Nintendogs hat trick.