This week was interesting. Worms 2 is still new on the marked, and the new Sonic for Nintendo DS, Sonic Rush Adventures, was released in Europe, doing pretty well this first week. The best game to debut this week has to be Pokémon Mystery Dungeon, though. Combined they enter the Top 10 this week at spot number 6, and will almost certain climb their way up a few more spots this upcoming week, seeing as the game only released this past thursday.

What's more, this weekend had the two most active days ever, it seems. I haven't seen anything higher since I started tracking this, at least. Saturday saw almost 1100K connections and sunday almost had a million as well. Sadly, this was after one of the worst weeks in a long time, having days with only around 500k connections, going down to 516k at the lowest this week. It'll be interesting to see when the next day with over a million connections will happen.

The complete chart for week 37 of 2007 can be seen underneath.

Please note

- The number of connections listed in here is not unique connections, just the total number of connections for the service during the past week.

- These data are straight off of Nintendo's Wi-Fi site, through the freeware program WFCStatus.

- A Top 75 was released last week by me. To see it for, click here.

---------------------This weeks Top 10---------------------

Right now I won't separate the list in DS / Wii, but I will do this, as more games get released for Wii.
New games on the Top 10 is written in bold. Games in italic haven't been released in America (yet).

1. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 2,371,629 connections*
2. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 378,465 connections
3. [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 328,060 connections
4. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 252,044 connections
5. [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 209,328 connections
6. [NDS] Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami no Tankentai - 163,848 connections**
7. [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 147,063 connections
8. [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 144,734 connections
9. [NDS] Transformers: Autobots/Decepticons - 79,354 connections***
10. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 75,374 connections

* Pokémon Diamond - 1,397,365 | Pokémon Pearl - 947,264
** Pokémon Dungeon Toki - 85,161 | Pokémon Dungeon Yami - 78,687
*** Transformers: Autobots - 40,926 | Transformers: Decepticons - 38,428

For comparison, last weeks chart:

1. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 2,553,577 connections*
2. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 360,312 connections
3. [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 300,528 connections
4. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 251,753 connections
5. [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 192,614 connections
6. [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 141,190 connections
7. [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 117,708 connections
8. [NDS] Transformers: Autobots & Decepticons - 91,142 connections**
9. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 72,015 connections
10. [NDS] Tetris DS - 57,008 connections

* Pokémon Diamond - 1,507,182 | Pokémon Pearl - 1,046,395
** Transformers: Autobots - 42,096 | Transformers: Decepticons - 49,046

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---------------------How about those latest online releases?---------------------

Europe | [WII] Madden NFL 2008 | 32,345 connections
Europe | [NDS] Worms: Open Warfare 2 | 27,625 connections
Europe | [NDS] Sonic Rush Adventures | 8,570 connections
USA | [NDS] Worms: Open Warfare 2 | 27,625 connections
Japan | [NDS] Kidou Gekidan Haro Ichiza: Gundam Mahjong + Z: Sara ni Deki Ruyouni Nattana! | 3,374 connections
Japan | [NDS] Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki no Tankentai | 85,161 connections
Japan | [NDS] Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Yami no Tankentai | 78,687 connections

---------------------Upcoming onlinegames---------------------

Europe:
* FIFA 2008 [Wii, September 28th]
* Luminous Arc [DS, September 28th]
* NBA Live 2008 [Wii, October 12th]
* The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass [DS, October 19th]
* Rune Factory [DS, October 26th]
* Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock [Wii, November 8th]
* Dragonball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 [Wii, November 8th]
* Endless Ocean [Wii, November 9th]
* Bomberman Story [DS, November 23rd]
(* Mario Party DS [DS, November 23rd])
(* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [DS, November 30th])
(* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [Wii, November 30th])
* Pokémon Battle Revolution [Wii, December 7th]

America:
* Sonic Rush Adventures [DS, September 18th]
* The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass [DS, October 1st]
* MLB Power Pros [Wii, October 1st]
* NBA Live 2008 [Wii, October 2nd]
* FIFA 2008 [Wii, October 9th]
* Hooked! Real Motion Fishing [Wii, October 9rd]
* Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock [Wii, October 28th]
* Battalion Wars 2 [Wii, October 29th]
* Endless Ocean [Wii, October 29th]
* Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker [DS, November 6th]
* Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3 [Wii, November 13th]
(* Mario Party DS [DS, November 19th])
(* Super Smash Bros. Brawl [Wii, December 3rd])
* Professor Layton and the Curious Villiage [DS, December 3rd]

Japan:
* Elemental Monster [DS, September 20th]
* Mario Strikers Charged [Wii, September 20th]
* Famista DS [DS, September 27th]
* Kokoro o Yasumeru Otona no Nurie DS 2 [DS, September 27th]
* Bass Fishing Wii: Rokumaru Densetsu [Wii, September 27th]
* Dragon Ball Z: Sparking Meteor [Wii, October 4th]
* Sonic Rush Adventures [DS, October 18th]
* Winners Circle [DS, October 18th]
* World Soccer Winning Eleven DS: Goal x Goal! [DS, October 25th]
* Ghost Squad [Wii, October 25th]
* Simple Wii Series Vol. 1: The Minna de Kart Race [Wii, October 25th]
* Simple Wii Series Vol. 2: The Minna de Bass Tsuri Taikai [Wii, October 25th]
* Sangokushi DS 2 [DS, November 1st]
* Ryoukiki no Susume [DS, November 8th]
* Dungeon Explorer: Jashin no Ryouiki [DS, November 15th]
* Kodai Ouja: Kyouryuu King [DS, November 22nd]
* Ryuusei no RockMan 2: Berserk x Dinosaur [DS, November 22nd]
* Ryuusei no RockMan 2: Berserk x Shinobi [DS, November 22nd]
* Power Pro-kun Pocket 10 [DS, December 6th]

---------------------Additional information---------------------

* Total number of connections for the week was 4,884,517, a bit up from last weeks 4,799,311.

* Pokémon Diamond & Pokémon Pearl had a total share of all the connections made this week of 48.55%. The games in the Top 10 was responsible for a massive 84.96% of all connections.

* The game closest to Top 10 this week was Tetris DS with 69,238 connections. Behind it was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster World Championship 2007 with 39,600 connections.

---------------------Feel free to ask!---------------------

As always - if you want information on a game not mentioned in the first post, please feel free to ask. I'll gladly give them to you

Thanks as always Bo.

Impressive debut for PMD. Will be interesting to see if it holds steady or even sees an increase.

Does Nintendo track online activity in games that don't feature multiplayer modes... like Metroid Prime 3's voucher trading?

* Ghost Squad [Wii, October 25th]

^^^^^

What about it it is online?
Leaderboards?

Wow at the Pokemon MD connection. With US & Europe release, they might even get higher than Mario Strikers Charged.

Congratulation to MSC to maintain their connection rate (no drop compared to last week).

Charged is holding steady I wonder how much of a bump it will get when the Japan version releases this week. BTW you rock for doing this.

Thanks, Bo.

Strikers Charged actually gained some connections this week. *wipes tear* good job, Strikers, good job.

Dash said:

* Ghost Squad [Wii, October 25th]

^^^^^

What about it it is online?
Leaderboards?

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yep, online leaderboards, iirc.

Nicely done, Bo. Think we'll see an uptick in online activity inspired by the new Pokemon real-time website?

too bad i can't play jump ultimate stars online

it lags like hell

Phife Dawg said:

Impressive debut for PMD. Will be interesting to see if it holds steady or even sees an increase.

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An increase is almost certain at the moment. The game hasn't been out for a week yet, and has only increased since its released monday. I'll get back to you later today with the number of connections for monday, which should be lower than those in the weekend, but really not that much lower.

bigmakstudios said:

Does Nintendo track online activity in games that don't feature multiplayer modes... like Metroid Prime 3's voucher trading?

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I really think it depends on the game. Elebits is tracked, but Metroid Prime 3 is not.

Chumly said:

Charged is holding steady I wonder how much of a bump it will get when the Japan version releases this week.

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Up until this date, I'd say that it wouldn't make a noticable bump at all, but I just did some searching, and it seems like Strikers for GameCube went up to almost 200k. If the Wii-version can do that as well, the number of connections should increase The japanese really love their online games.

Flynn said:

Think we'll see an uptick in online activity inspired by the new Pokemon real-time website?

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No, I don't think it'll have any effect at all. Awesome tracking site, though!

salva said:

too bad i can't play jump ultimate stars online

it lags like hell

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I know I'm surprised it's still in the Top 10. It seems like only people outside of America experience lag, but I experience lag even though I play another person from Denmark, which seems kinda odd. When it finally works, it's an awesome online game, though

salva said:

too bad i can't play jump ultimate stars online

it lags like hell

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Bo130 said:

I know I'm surprised it's still in the Top 10. It seems like only people outside of America experience lag, but I experience lag even though I play another person from Denmark, which seems kinda odd. When it finally works, it's an awesome online game, though

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I have this game, but I have no idea how to play it. Help?

Beezy said:

I have this game, but I have no idea how to play it. Help?

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Could you specify a bit?

You can't understand the menus/missions?
You don't know how to fight?
You don't know how to make a deck?

With Brawl confirmed with online matches, will it beat Pokémon on top of the chart? At least 2nd place seem pretty certain, IMO.

Bo130 said:

With Brawl confirmed with online matches, will it beat Pokémon on top of the chart? At least 2nd place seem pretty certain, IMO.

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Hell yes it will lols.

Bo130 said:

With Brawl confirmed with online matches, will it beat Pokémon on top of the chart? At least 2nd place seem pretty certain, IMO.

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It'd be nice to have a battle for top spot here, it's like sales charts all over again.

Bo130 said:

With Brawl confirmed with online matches, will it beat Pokémon on top of the chart? At least 2nd place seem pretty certain, IMO.

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I think brawl will absolutely destroy pokemon. Its sales are going to go through the room. I also think people will play more online matches on a console (espcially in the US).

This oughta be interesting next week... Connections for monday:

Animal Crossing: Wild World - 42,400 connections
Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami - 21,190 + 20,867 = 42,057 connections

Thank god Strikers didn't fell again like almost every week. Hopefully it can stay at that pace, which isn't bad at all.

Also, I think Brawl has a big chance to be the single biggest online console game to date. Could only possibly beaten by a true Pokemon console MMO.

Neomoto said:

Thank god Strikers didn't fell again like almost every week. Hopefully it can stay at that pace, which isn't bad at all.

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Yeah, Strikers doesn't deserve to drop, Its got a great online.

i can't wait to see the wifi activity after release of smash!!!

arab said:

i can't wait to see the wifi activity after release of smash!!!

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the servers will crash.

Bo130 said:

Could you specify a bit?

You can't understand the menus/missions?
You don't know how to fight?
You don't know how to make a deck?

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I don't understand the menus/missions or how to make a deck.

the servers will crash.

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Yeah, it seems that Nintendo is never prepared for big online multiplayer game releases. I think the servers crashed when D/P was released, and I remember it happening when they launched NWC too.

No Prime 3?

John Harker said:

No Prime 3?

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Prime 3 doesn't have any true WFC features; trading friend vouchers doesn't count.

Beezy said:

I don't understand the menus/missions or how to make a deck.

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well when you start there are 8 menu circles

go to the first bottom circle and there you will make a deck

input any name

in the deck-making section, you will have alot of cards (or will have) and you have to have one or more cards (komas) of 1 slot, one or more of 2-3 slots, and one or more with 4 or more slots in a deck.

the 1 koma slot card will help you by giving you skills

the 2-3 koma slot card is a helper and can help you by attacking others during battles

4+ koma slot card is the character you will use to fight

now though, you have to choose a leader (4+ koma slot card only) while making the deck by pressing either R or L and put it in a character

that's basically the basics of making a deck and using it on battle

missions

use this guide to help you with the missions, it helped me

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/file/933199/45856

and the little icon legend if you don't know the name of the anime (like me because i don't watch anime)

http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/ds/file/933199/47977

Seeing the share of connections so far this week, the Top 3 next week will be.

1. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl
2. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World
3. [NDS] Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami no Tankentai

It's gonna be close, though.

Elemental Monster and Strikers was released in Japan yesterday. Elemental Monster did 419 connections, and Mario Strikers got a small, but noticable boost. Perhaps the release in Japan can move it a few spots up the chart.