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 May 23nd, show popularity over multiple game formats.
Star Wars fever has swept the rental charts as surely as it has the box office, and
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith is the #1 rental on the cross-platform chart.
God of War holds strong at #2, while
Forza Motorsport keeps up the pace at #3.
Star Wars Episode III is also the #1 game on the Xbox chart, followed by
Forza Motorsport. A different kind of extraterrestrial battle, Midway's
Area 51, stays solid at #3. A similar pattern emerges on the PS2:
Star Wars, followed by the platform-specific title from the general chart (
God of War in this case) with
Area 51 at third.
The GameCube, on the other hand, remains Sith-free, and its rental chart is untroubled by the Star Wars mania.
Resident Evil 4 is still #1, and
Star Fox Assault -- the closest thing Cube owners have to wars in the stars -- is still #2, and
Donkey Konga 2 has pounded its way to #3.
On the Game Boy Advance,
Pokémon Emerald at #1 and
Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap at #2 prove to the third-place GBA version of
Star Wars Episode III that Nintendo fans are a breed apart when it comes to favorite franchises. However, it must be said that
Star Wars Episode III did manage to top the DS charts, though
Need for Speed Underground 2 at #2 and
Pac-Pix at #3 could be seen as lesser competition in this case.
Finally, the unpredictable PSP charts offer another permutation of releases:
MVP Baseball hit it out of the park to come back to #1, the inexplicable
Smart Bomb has curious renters propelling it up to #2, and
Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee bogeying back down to #3.
