This Week's Releases, Top Rentals

Gears of War? Bah!

Marvel vs. Capcom? Meh.

Let's be honest here: The Wii's new Sports Resort game is going to dwarf everything else released this year in terms of sales. People who don't know, don't care, and don't play games will buy it. I'm still trying to figure out how Nintendo managed to accomplish that.


That's not to say it's a bad game - quite the contrary: the game itself and the new motion-sensing tech that comes bundled with it have been praised by critics. It includes twice as many sports-themed minigames as the original Wii Sports, and the new game and motion technology will reportedly be bundled with Wii consoles beginning this holiday season, which should provide a nice boost for Nintendo's sales figures without forcing them to resort to the kind of price drop we're likely to see for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

Read this week's full release list here.


Top five most popular rentals at Gamefly:


1. Prototype (Xbox 360)
2. Call of Juarez: Bound In Blood (Xbox 360)
3. Ghostbusters (Xbox 360)
4. Fight Night Round 4 (Xbox 360)
5. Red Faction Guerrilla (Xbox 360)