Rentak, the company which tracks game and movie rentals, has revealed the top rental titles of 2009, which Fallout 3 tops, not surprising at all. What is surprising, however, is that 17 of the top 20 games are Xbox 360 games. The top 20 list:

1. Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks, Xbox 360)
2. UFC Undisputed (THQ, Xbox 360)
3. Call Of Duty: World At War (Activision, Xbox 360)
4. Resident Evil 5 (Capcom, Xbox 360)
5. Gears of War 2 (Microsoft, Xbox 360)
6. Mortal Combat vs. DC Universe (Midway, Xbox 360)
7. Left 4 Dead (EA, Xbox 360)
8. Saints Row 2 (THQ, Xbox 360)
9. Mario Kart Wii (Nintendo, Wii)
10. Halo Wars (Microsoft, Xbox 360)
11. Madden NFL 10 (EA, Xbox 360)
12. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Activision, Xbox 360)
13. Skate 2 (EA, Xbox 360)
14. Street Fighter IV (Capcom, Xbox 360)
15. Major League Baseball 2K9 (Take-Two, Xbox 360)
16. Fable II (Microsoft, Xbox 360)
17. Midnight Club: Los Angeles (Take Two, Xbox 360)
18. Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo, Wii)
19. Mario Party 8 (Nintendo, Wii)
20. Grand Theft Auto IV (Take-Two, Xbox 360)

These days popping down to the local rental store isn’t as popular as it used to be; Netflix’s format has heavily dominated the rental business and after a while someone realized that the same framework could work with video games. Rental service GameFly works in the same manner; pay a subscription depending on how many games you want at once and select your titles. The game discs are mailed to you in small paper envelopes which double as the return envelopes when you’re finished.

GameFly has apparently experienced incredibly high breakage of their discs and has been doing a constant dance of meetings and appeals to the postal service to try and get theses percentages down. As you might imagine with video games costing around $60 while DVDs are often a third or less of that price, GameFly’s profits are cut into quite sharply by high loss rates.

They’re now filing a complaint against the Postal Service, citing that their business is being harmed by preferential treatment that’s being given to other companies. You see, though Netflix and Blockbuster ship their dvds and games the same way around seventy percent of their mail is removed from the piles of letters and other items that get fed through automatic sorting machines. GameFly has requested the same service be granted to them, but apparently this hasn’t happened. In addition to high breakage rates, nineteen USPS employees have been fired for stealing discs from GameFly, which likely means there’s even more of it happening.