GameFly reports 2010’s best, raises questions on 2011

Best of 2010

Early Wednesday morning, GameFly released several Top Ten lists, documenting the rental service’s most popular titles of 2010. As expected, GameFly’s most-rented games closely match up with the most purchased games of 2010, logging titles like Take Two’s Red Dead Redemption and the latest game in Activision’s ever-popular Call of Duty series, Call of Duty: Black Ops.  GameFly’s co-founder Sean Spector states: “The GameFly community is comprised of active and dedicated gamers and we view their preferences, requests and favorites as a great barometer for what’s hot in gaming.”

Though the aforementioned shooters dominated consoles in 2010, GameFly’s handheld rental numbers seemed to thrive with RPG titles such as Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep and Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies. Could this predict an emergence of the RPG genre exclusively among handheld systems, leaving consoles solely for action games?

The cross-platform list and all of the platform-specific lists can be found below.

Cross-Platform
1. Red Dead Redemption (PS3, Xbox 360)
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS)
3. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood (PS3, Xbox 360)
4. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS)
5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PS3, Xbox 360)
6. Mafia II (PS3, Xbox 360)
7. Medal of Honor (PS3, Xbox 360)
8. God of War III (PS3)
9. Fallout: New Vegas (PS3, Xbox 360)
10. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction (Xbox 360)

Xbox 360
1. Red Dead Redemption
2. Call of Duty: Black Ops
3. Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell Conviction
4. Halo: Reach
5. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
6. Mass Effect 2
7. Alan Wake
8. BioShock 2
9. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
10. Fable III

PlayStation 3
1. God of War III
2. Heavy Rain
3. Red Dead Redemption
4. Call of Duty: Black Ops
5. Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood
6. Dante’s Inferno Divine Edition
7. Battlefield: Bad Company 2
8. Mafia II
9. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
10. Medal of Honor

Wii
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2
2. Donkey Kong Country Returns
3. Disney Epic Mickey
4. Metroid: Other M
5. Red Steel 2
6. Monster Hunter Tri
7. Kirby’s Epic Yarn
8. GoldenEye 007
9. Wipeout
10. Just Dance 2

DS
1. Pokemon SoulSilver
2. Pokemon HeartGold
3. Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
4. Super Scribblenauts
5. Professor Layton and the Unwound Future
6. Golden Sun Dark Dawn
7. Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem
8. Picross 3D
9. Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth
10. Toy Story 3

PlayStation 2
1. Silent Hill: Shattered Memories
2. Madden NFL 11
3. MLB ’10: The Show
4. WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011
5. NCAA Football 11
6. Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
7. Despicable Me
8. NBA 2K11
9. Toy Story 3
10. Lord of the Rings: Aragorn’s Quest

PSP
1. Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep
2. Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker
3. God of War: Ghost of Sparta
4. Valkyria Chronicles 2
5. Dante’s Inferno
6. Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Heroes 3
7. Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 3 Portable
8. Lunar: Silver Star Harmony
9. SOCOM: U.S. Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3
10. Army of Two: The 40th Day

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