Nintendo WFC Online Activity (W/E December 30th) [BIGGEST WEEK YET!]

[Bo130]

There's a few things you need to know this week:

* We have a new 1st! Pokémon is off the top spot! Also, 3 new games in the Top 10. This is also the first week ever with no games only out in Japan, IIRC.

* This is, I think, the biggest week EVER for the service.

* The service or the program went down late saturday, so sunday has been generated as an average of the other 6 days and then added to the total. It would probably have been bigger if up, but I thought this was the most even way to handle it, if I want to compare weeks later. Zodiak told me the service had downtime last year around this time as well (Dec 21 - Jan 2), so that's probably it again. This uncertainty also means, that there won't be a Top 100 this week.

The complete chart for week 52 of 2007 can be seen underneath. Enjoy :).

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 100 was released by me four weeks ago. To compare, see it here. [b]Usually I'd submit a new Top 100 list this week, but the service isn't very stabile right now, so I don't know how correct that would be. As it takes some time gathering all the data for the Top 100 most active games, I don't want to do it while the service is unstable.

---------------------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. [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 1,424,018 connections
2. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 1,403,367 connections*
3. [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 380,759 connections
4. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 339,491 connections
5. [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 245,649 connections
6. [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 218,447 connections
7. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 217,084 connections
8. [WII] Mario & Sonic at the Olympics - 204,054 connections
9. [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 173,548 connections
10. [WII] Medal of Honor Heroes 2 - 156,931 connections

* Pokémon Diamond - 824,273 | Pokémon Pearl - 579,094

For comparison, last weeks chart:

1. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 1,406,595 connections* 2. [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 657,787 connections 3. [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 293,901 connections 4. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 283,666 connections 5. [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 174,858 connections 6. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 142,262 connections 7. [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 133,156 connections 8. [NDS] Ryuusei no RockMan 2: Berserk & Shinobi/Dinosaur - 120,031 connections** 9. [NDS] Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: World Championship 2008 - 113,767 connections 10. [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 95,669 connections * Pokémon Diamond - 825,790 | Pokémon Pearl - 580,805 ** RockMan Shinobi - 66,155 | RockMan Dinosaur - 53,876

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

Europe | [WII] Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games | 204,054 connections
USA | [WII] NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams | 23,454 connections
USA | [NDS] Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command | 4,795 connections
Japan | [NDS] Kousoku Card Battle: Card Hero | 69,733 connections
Japan | [WII] FIFA 2008 | 67,278 connections
Japan | [WII] Chocobo no Fushigi na Dungeon: Toki Wasure No Meikyuu | 9,987 connections
Japan | [WII] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Yakyuu Wii Ketteiban | 3,431 connections

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

Europe:
* Wii Chess [Wii, January 18th]
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [DS, January 22nd]
* NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams [Wii, January 25th]

America:
* Advance Wars: Days of Ruin [DS, January 21st]
* Endless Ocean [Wii, January 21st]
* Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games [DS, January 22nd]
* Professor Layton and the Curious Villiage [DS, February 4th]
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl [Wii, February 10th]

Japan:
* Rune Factory 2 [DS, January 3rd]
* Caduceus: New Blood [Wii, January 17th]
* Dairantou Smash Brothers X [Wii, January 24th]
* Hijouguchi: Exit DS [DS, January 24th]
* Medal of Honor Heroes 2 [Wii, February 14th]
* Fushigi no Dungeon - Furai no Shiren 3: Karakuri Yashiki no Nemuri Hime [Wii, February 28th]

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

* Total number of connections for the week was 6,490,722, a major boost compared to last week of 4,681,230.

* Pokémon Diamond & Pokémon Pearl had a total share of all the connections made this week of 21.62%. The games in the Top 10 was responsible for a massive 73.39% of all connections.

* The game closest to Top 10 this week was Ryuusei no RockMan 2: Berserk & Shinobi/Dinosaur with 142,184 connections. Behind it was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: World Championship 2008 with 133,037 connections.

* A few interesting numbers for upcoming games for this week:

[WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 1,594 connections
[WII] Mario Kart Wii - 1,251 connections
[WII] Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 - 728 connections
[NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Olympics - 41 connections
[NDS] Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - 0 connections

---------------------Archive---------------------

Nintendo WFC Online Activity (W/E December 23rd)
Nintendo WFC Online Activity (W/E December 16th) (NiGHTS released in America)
Nintendo WFC Online Activity (W/E December 9th)
Nintendo WFC Online Activity (W/E December 2nd)
Nintendo WFC Online Activity (W/E November 25th) (Mario & Sonic is released in Europe and Japan)

---------------------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 :)

[Nuclear Muffin]

Wow! I never thought I'd see the day when Pokemon D/P gets dethroned!

Anyone who says Wii owners don't play 3rd party games or don't like online games can shut up now!

[ksamedi]

Big Medal of Honor and Guitar Hero suprise.

[Xavien]

Holy shit @ Guitar Hero II, i wonder what spurred the massive increase?

[M3wThr33]

Holy shit @ Guitar Hero II, i wonder what spurred the massive increase?

Christmas.

[Lobster]

Its obvious that MoH2 has gotten some sales

Holy shit at GH3, it more than doubled last week...so crazy.

[Phife Dawg]

Pokemon dethroned, very good numbers for MoH - new year's surprise (at least for me).

Thx as always Bo.

[Syth_Blade22]

Amazing numbers this week! and nearer to cracking the 200,000 barrier for all of the top 10! lol.

Interesting to see metroid prime hunters and pokemon have not moved at all, solid player base there it's good to see.

[KevinCow]

Wow, people are still playing Metroid Prime Hunters? I thought everyone had realized that game was glitched to hell and back and full of cheaters and completely broken in some ways. Like how one guy has a 67567576% Win Rate.

[Vic]

Holy shit at GH3

[JCX]

mario kart wii is already complete enough to play online? I'm surprised. I guess they'll just sit on it for a while since brawl is coming so soon.

[Rezbit]

Wow! With that many people playing MoH, I'm nearly tempted to pick it up once it hits Aus. Massive numbers for GH3...I mean really that's ridiculous.

[Lobster]

Wow! With that many people playing MoH, I'm nearly tempted to pick it up once it hits Aus. Massive numbers for GH3...I mean really that's ridiculous.

Im definitely picking it up once it hits Aus. The great thing is the game won't be hindered by the region locked wi-fi connection..

<3 EAs Wii online support.

[Phife Dawg]

Im definitely picking it up once it hits Aus. The great thing is the game won't be hindered by the region locked wi-fi connection.. <3 EAs Wii online support.

While that is true why would anyone play outside his own region? And a FPS no less? You're looking at a ping of 100+ ms.

[Cynar]

amazing gh3 numbers, can't wait to see what brawl will pull in once it's launched worldwide.

[Nuclear Muffin]

mario kart wii is already complete enough to play online? I'm surprised. I guess they'll just sit on it for a while since brawl is coming so soon.

Been on there for a while now actually (Good thing too since it's due to come out in March!)

[_Alkaline_]

Hopefully this means Medal of Honor Heroes 2 has sold a fair bit more than its initial 35k.

[Lobster]

While that is true why would anyone play outside his own region? And a FPS no less? You're looking at a ping of 100+ ms.

Actually, I think WFC is country locked..I'd still like to play other PAL users.

edit:yeah..WFC is country locked..

[flipping_heck]

* A few interesting numbers for upcoming games for this week: [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 1,594 connections [WII] Mario Kart Wii - 1,251 connections [WII] Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 - 728 connections [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Olympics - 41 connections [NDS] Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - 0 connections ---------------------Archive---------------------

W00t! Give me the SSBB info beta testers!!

[fresquito]

Actually, I think WFC is country locked..I'd still like to play other PAL users. edit:yeah..WFC is country locked..

It's not. It depends on the games entirelly.

[Lobster]

It's not. It depends on the games entirelly.

Oh..well GH3 and Strikers are country locked :\ Which is horrible since nobody plays GH3 in Aus..

[fresquito]

Oh..well GH3 and Strikers are country locked :\ Which is horrible since nobody plays GH3 in Aus..

No, those games aren't country locked either. Maybe for Australia, don't know, but I can play with people from around Europe with no problem. Besides, I don't know about all the Wii games, but there're lots of DS Wi-Fi games that can be played with people around the globe.

BTW, I'm asuming all EA games let you play with people globally, since MoHH2 lets you do that and it uses EA Nation. like any other EA online game on the Wii.

[Lobster]

No, those games aren't country locked either. Maybe for Australia, don't know, but I can play with people from around Europe with no problem. Besides, I don't know about all the Wii games, but there're lots of DS Wi-Fi games that can be played with people around the globe. BTW, I'm asuming all EA games let you play with people globally, since MoHH2 lets you do that and it uses EA Nation. like any other EA online game on the Wii.

Australia must be considered its own region :( You can definitely only play people from Australia in GH3 and Mario Strikers.

[MiketheBSG]

BTW, howcome I NEVER see anyone who was on the original Mario Strikers Charged US Friend Code Exchange online? Nearly 40 friends, and only 1 other person has played at least 1 online game in the last week?

What happened?

[Haunted]

Guitar Hero III :o

Thanks for the numbers, Bo.

[Deku]

Bo is there any way to expand your weekly reports to a top 20 instead of a top 10?

[Syth_Blade22]

Australia must be considered its own region :( You can definitely only play people from Australia in GH3 and Mario Strikers.

sadly.. it is.

[Bo130]

Bo is there any way to expand your weekly reports to a top 20 instead of a top 10?

I'll be doing that, or dividing into Top 10 DS-games and Top 10 Wii-games very soon. There's about 150 games on the service right now, think it's about time :)

[pgtl_10]

Wow! With that many people playing MoH, I'm nearly tempted to pick it up once it hits Aus. Massive numbers for GH3...I mean really that's ridiculous.

I recommend the game. They're are at least 300 onlin e at anytime of the day.

[Arde5643]

Wooo - glad to see MOHH2 in the top 10 finally.

I guess good word of mouth really helped the game after all.

I wonder if the same thing can happen to Zak + Wiki in the end (basically, if it has legs due to good word of mouth). :/

Thanks again for compiling the list, Bo130.

[Neomoto]

Seeing GH III beat Pokemon seems almost unreal heh. I thought the only game that could do that (but consistently) would be Brawl. Awesome though, and a incredible boost. Especially compared to all the other games' boost.

MoH is doing great too. And is this the first week the #10 game had more than 100k connections? And even #12 is doing far above that.

It will be very interesting to see in just a few weeks how big Advance Wars's [online] userbase really is. Can't wait for that game.

[Bo130]

The service has been down the whole week, so I won't be able to provide any data this week. I don't know when I'll be able to do it again :(

[Phife Dawg]

The service has been down the whole week, so I won't be able to provide any data this week. I don't know when I'll be able to do it again :(

Damn :(. Any indications to why it's down?

[Bo130]

No, we're still trying to figure it out. Any help would be highly appreciated. Hopefully it'll be back soon, at least before Brawl releases later this month.

Also, does anyone know how the previous Advance Wars-installments did? I kinda think we're going to see a flop of Days of Ruin online... Or, maybe not a flop, but not too much above Planet Puzzle League.

[Lobster]

Guitar Hero broke WFC?

That would be pretty hilarious.

[farnham]

Wow incredible numbers for thirdparty titles..

Nintendo WFC is quickly becomming a big online alternative despite its suckiness.. incredible

[Phife Dawg]

No, we're still trying to figure it out. Any help would be highly appreciated. Hopefully it'll be back soon, at least before Brawl releases later this month. Also, does anyone know how the previous Advance Wars-installments did? I kinda think we're going to see a flop of Days of Ruin online... Or, maybe not a flop, but not too much above Planet Puzzle League.

Too bad. Can't help sorry, no knowledge of this kind whatsoever.

Don't have any numbers for AW, but I think it's safe to assume that this will do rather poorly in Japan (seeing that Dual Strike sold under 50k). I think it'll do OK in NA, not sure about Europe, it'll depend on marketing since the series hasn't been huge here or anyhing.

[Syth_Blade22]

Wow incredible numbers for thirdparty titles.. Nintendo WFC is quickly becomming a big online alternative despite its suckiness.. incredible

tbh, doesn't hurt that it's free. I do not play my xbox online. wii yes.

[DefectiveReject]

I heard they're installing 12million new servers in preperation for SSBB and the onslaught of the whole of Japan playing the game

[true Gek]

GHIII...Wow...

A third party game in the top!

[handofg0d]

What are the numbers for Draglade [NDS]?

[Bo130]

What are the numbers for Draglade [NDS]?

It had 7,813 connections for the week in the OP, not really bad, but certainly nothing special either. Would have been about #100 on the Top 100 list, I think.

[Bo130]

Not very active yet, but the service is up again :)!!

Tuesday:
Interesting games
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 156,141 connections
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 121,703 connections
Mario Kart DS - 42,616 connections
Animal Crossing: Wild World - 40,010 connections
Mario Strikers Charged - 19,528 connections
Pokémon Battle Revolution - 18,107 connections
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 17,432 connections
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: World Championship 2008 - 17,315 connections
Mario & Sonic at the Olympics - 11,958 connections
Jump! Ultimate Stars - 11,832 connections
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 - 11,008 connections

New games
Rune Factory 2 - 1,473 connections

Upcoming Games
Mario Kart Wii - 774 connections
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 409 connections
Nitro Bike - 86 connections
Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 - 60 connections
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - 22 connections

Any other requests?

[Lobster]

Nitro Bike connections are most likely from IGN and any other site that got the game.

MoH wont make the top 10 anymore :(

[Teknoman]

Any other requests?

The numbers for DBZ BT3 please.

[Bo130]

The numbers for DBZ BT3 please.

For tuesday: 4,904 connections.

[M3d10n]

USA | [NDS] Warhammer 40,000: Squad Command | 4,795 connections

Whoa, DS Warhammer? Is it any good?

[Bo130]

Wow, Mario Kart is really active at the moment :)

Wednesday:
Interesting games
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 148,144 connections
Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 121,341 connections
Animal Crossing: Wild World - 38,656 connections
Mario Kart DS - 37,241 connections
Mario Strikers Charged - 19,088 connections
Pokémon Battle Revolution - 17,601 connections
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 16,899 connections
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters: World Championship 2008 - 15,677 connections
Mario & Sonic at the Olympics - 11,227 connections
Medal of Honor Heroes 2 - 10,230 connections
Jump! Ultimate Stars - 9,108 connections

New games this week
Rune Factory 2 - 1,513 connections

Upcoming Games
Mario Kart Wii - 1,444 connections
Super Smash Bros. Brawl - 255 connections
Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 - 61 connections
Advance Wars: Days of Ruin - 4 connections
Nitro Bike - 0 connections

[DefectiveReject]

Mario Kart really must be nearly complete with all this online activity, especially as it is getting more than Brawl which we know comes out in 2 weeks in Japan

[Lobster]

It would be hilarious if Mario Kart made the top before launch.

At this moment all my attention is going towards MoH:H2..Really want that game to succeed and it looks like it is!

Looks like GH3 won't hit the million mark again any time soon.