360 GTAIV most-rented game of '08

@death919 Renting increases sales. If rental companies weren't buying those games then in all likelihood, the consumer wouldn't be buying them either. I know for me, there are certain games that I will not buy, but I'll definitely rent them to try it out.

lol i wonder why maybe its because they probably couldn't complete gta 4 before they took it back thus they rented it again

@avarice!!! Dude you dont know what your talking about! The is not a gaming console it is only to watch movies and play MGS4! Just like the wii, every one goes out and spends $300 to have Wii Sports!!!!

@DisPimpin: "Year of the PS3?" If you mean the year MGS4 finally got released on PS3 and the game sold well then, yeah. However if you are implying it was the year when PS3's sales unit surpassed the 360 then, no. @Kleeyook: Same song and dance.

osito- You do realize that they have different groups tracking the sales and different groups tracking the rentals, right?

Yeah, GTAIV is definitely a game to rent. After the whole story is done, you likely won't touch it again...

There's a reason why it's the most rented: Because there's nothing to do once you've beaten it!

wow why they wont show the sales not rentals i could rent games over and over agian dont matter the sales count more not rentals

ALTAIR360, They are watching Blu-Ray movies....PS3 = Affordable Blu-Ray player, ranked as the best Blu-Ray player for the price range and it does play games. What hurts it is MS gets exclusives or exclusive content for their games and it hurts the PS3, but the PS3 is a great Blu-Ray player

Ultima-Chocochu, Are you freakin' serisous. These games were not popular? Call of Duty 4, was game of the year with a lot of groups. Halo 3 broke records for selling in the first 24 hours and month, as did GTA 4. The only one i can agree with that was lousy was Army of Two, yet the game was a hit with players and people in LAN centers were playing it constantly because of the Co-Op modes. Dude, seriously don't go and say OPINIONs about games when cleary the statistics show otherwise of some of these being great games and also, people buying the games as well shows otherwise, oh and lets forget the reviews GTA4, halo 3, CoD4 and R6: Vegas 2 got (which Vegas 2 was another great game).

XD, fanboys you are hiiilarious. Everyone know's 360 has sold more than PS3, but if you take all these statistics to be true about rental's and all, all it says is more people have 360's. All the games on the list were not unpopular games among 360 or PS3, they were all big titles and not everyone knew if they'd like them or not. Point being, this is rentals and not actual sells in which, people rent because they don't know if they'd actually want the game. The only thing I wonder is, does this include GameFly or just rental stores? If so, what is the big deal about people having a game 5 days XDDDD

wth are ppl doing with their ps3 ?? XD poorly sales AND rentals

WOW! Not a single PS3 game???

Year of the PS3?

Agreed. Nary a PlayStation 3 title on the list is somewhat suspect...

Be prepared for 2009! Tons of PS3 games will come out!

Ooooh I rented one of those army of twos, we had a co-op race in my dorm to complete it first! I won ^_^

sendnm23 you are the smartest person alive.im starting get sick of these ppl wining and complaining about renting games,it is RENTING for god sake,its bullsPit(that is a PPPPPPPPP,for all you hypocritse that keep reporting me).in my opion i rented gt4 it was fun but i wouldnt buy it.the ps3 owners shouldnt get pissed that just means your daddys are rich enough to buy you ps3 games,instead us poor 360 owners rent games.simple minority.

Maybe this stats are not that important to fanboys, especially if your favorite console is not on the list, but this has significant impact to devs. If you were a developer and putting millions in a game, which console would you invest in?

the sony ps3 is a ONE game plataform....well is not a plataform , is more like an experiment .....or something. and i admit metal gear solid 4 is a great game. the only game on the ps3 console ..... well not console , thing.

no PS3 games at all haha

ha, ha. that just goes to show you that people only buy a ps3 to watch blu-ray. 40-50% of people rent games over buying them anyway so this is an important stat. any apparently all these people that are buying wii's don't rent/buy games they just want wii sports.

Did anyone happen to notice that there is not one single sony ps3 game in the top ten? Not one single sony game period! 7 of those games belong to the x-box 360..... man that makes me feel sooooo goooood. Thats not to say I don't like Sony games... I just wish they would hurry up and make some! Either way does Grand theft Auto 4 being at the top really surprise anyone? I mean does it really? Not me, I mean every single kid on the planet we call earth wants to play this game..... Its a good game, but not for kids.... I see people I grew up with let their kids play this stuff all the time... I just sit there and awe at peoples parenting now a days... and then we wonder went wrong when something goes wrong...... Like that kid from who killed 4 cops and did everything he did in Grand theft auto but only in real life. Then he turned around and blamed this great game. People with bad parenting always looking for a scape goat.... oh well. I love this game either way.

Awesome stuff, can't wait for the DLC

Lol at the lame xbots, every major publications except a few ones that are on microsoft's payroll have shown that ps3 had the best games of 2008 and 2009 is looking even better at 360's expense. And now the bots are showing that the ps3 is weak using a chart of the most rented games of the year. How pitiful.

I'm not trying to pick on PS3 fans, but Stats like this are important, because Video/game renting establishments use this information for how they purchase games. If one console has a trend to get more rentals, they tend to buy more for that group. This happened with the original xbox and the PS2 , but it was xbox that was in the shadows. I always had a hard time finding games to rent. Video connection stopped stocking xbox games at 2 of their smaller stores that I went to. These trends do leave an impact, especially when Video stores do account for sales. Even if BlockBuster only bought 1,000 copies. Do the math for yourself. A sale is a sale.

Oh yeah, the PS3.. are they making games for that now?

MC_Raptor: Fanboy post at its best.

gta iv is the best on PC!!!

Most rented game? Wow.. lol

Pretty much I'm in the same boat as Msashi920... I mean come on guys, it's like if they compared the 360 and the PS3 in a contest of which gets destroyed the slowest in a microwave you guys would declare a console superior off that.

Not surprised that Call of Duty 4 is #2...that game's AWESOME!

Shouldn't there have been some PS2 games in that list?

Damn I hate you sony fanboys. You make us PS3 owners look bad. Look at the list. Considering it I would bet that 11-20 are probably the same games but for PS3 since those are all MULTIPLATFORM games. Just exchange halo3 for MGS4. What does renting ultimately mean? Nothing. Because companies aren't profiting. Only the renting store is. Maybe it really does mean ps3 owners have the money to buy instead of rent. Or maybe it means 360 owners have the good sense to rent a game before waste $60+tax on something that might suck. This really isn't anything to get worked up over.

Nice... I used to work for Rentrak....

Drumbreak1, i completely agree with you. GTA 4 is an amazing game with some major flaws.

ah but you see ahpuck overrated doesn't mean bad and i do agree with you it is overrated but it pretty good especially the amount of detail they truly put into the general game and world.

good thing they rented it, that game is overrated.

I really couldn't remember the last time I rented a game?? But, yea ummmm good job GTA?

who really cares about what peopple rented that just shows more people have a 360 and wii but all 3 consoles have really great games on them so it is also about what games you just because they rented the game dosent mean they liked it

This shows nothing! lol... what a stupid post, it shows to me that ps3 owners have such god games they don't even need to rent them... see how it can be interpreted? rediculousness.

Just another showing of how much the PS name has faded.

gta 4 = FAIL

if mgs 4 would be on the box it would kill gta 4

I love rentals man im a student who loves games and dont have money to buy all kinds so i rent them at blockbuster for 1 week 10$ i have it for 1 week and another full week for no late charge then i can keep it up to 30 days for 2 bucks extra and if i bring it back before 30 days i just pay the 2 bucks and rent another 1 so why would i buy if i can have it a whole month for 12$ if its a game i just wanna see if i like

PS3 fanboys need to stop making excuses. Except for Halo 3, all those games are multiplatform games. High rentals only speak to the high install base. People buy games that are their favorites and rent games they want to try out. I buy rpg and action games, I'm more likely to rent a games that are fps. I like to buy games with high replay value and rent games like Bioshock. If I had a PS3 I would never buy MGS. I would rent it and probably buy LBP. It makes sense. It has nothing to do with how much money you have.

This just proves that PS3 uses buy games and keep them. Renting says what? your game is only cool to keep for like 5 days. Yeah

I'm sure glad we don't get to rent XBOX 360 games here in Holland. Imagine that: Going to a store renting a game to see if it's worth 60 bucks. Or 90 bucks as is the case in Europe. That's right folks. You heard me: New games cost 60 euro's a pop.... Damn M$. I'm never buying a M$ product ever again

@killkill3:... "aren't as gun crazy"... but at the same time getting all worked up over Resistance 2 and Killzone 2... because we all know that PS3 owners hate shooters... PS3 wins the hypocrisy battle... but little else.