Sales charters at Rentrak Corporation recently released their year-end tallies of the games most picked up at rental chains and the ones with the biggest marketing budgets, and it appears that Microsoft’s console topped both lists for 2009. Having 17 of the Top 20 rentals and 9 out of 20 Top Advertised slots, it’s worthwhile to note that the Wii held 3 out of the Top 5 Advertising spots, with Sony’s Playstation 3 unable to grab even a single top rental. The sales charting stats come from Home Video Essentials and Rentrak’s own Video Game Ad Monitor service, the findings of which can be found in their entirety after the jump.
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