Are the world ready for some massive new DS games this week? Thurdays Japan will see the release of a new onlinegame from Square-Enix. Previous games with online, like Final Fantasy III and Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, have done very well on this chart, so this should do at least decent as well. What's more, the first The Legend of Zelda-game in the series to have online releases this coming saturday in Japan, and it's called The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I wonder how they'll both do... No new online games were released this week.

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.

- This week I'd like to thank Niklas Kjaer from http://N-Touch.dk, for helping me gathering the data for this weeks thread.

---------------------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. Pokémon Diamond - 1,400,798 connections
2. Pokémon Pearl - 949,846 connections
3. Animal Crossing: Wild World - 380,116 connections
4. Mario Kart DS - 307,965 connections
5. Mario Strikers Charged Football - 275,920 connections
6. Metroid Prime Hunters - 225,001 connections
7. Jump! Ultimate Stars - 116,866 connections
8. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 106,899 connections
9. Tetris DS - 67,357 connections
10. Pokémon Battle Revolution - 54,769 connections

For comparison, last weeks chart:

1. Pokémon Diamond - 1,408.772 connections
2. Pokémon Pearl - 974,958 connections
3. Animal Crossing: Wild World - 384,931 connections
4. Mario Kart DS - 301,498 connections
5. Mario Strikers Charged Football - 291,132 connections
6. Metroid Prime Hunters - 209,424 connections
7. Jump! Ultimate Stars - 128,493 connections
8. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 110,182 connections
9. Tetris DS - 65,210 connections
10. Pokémon Battle Revolution - 54,570 connections

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

Europe | Mario Strikers Charged Football | 275,920 connections
Europe | Custom Robo Arena | 19,218 connections
Europe | Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales | 5,112 connections
USA | Planet Puzzle League | 25,327 connections
Japan | Jissen Pachi-Slot Pachinko Hisshouhou! Sammy's Collection Hokuto no Ken Wii | 1,569 connections

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

Europe:
* Planet Puzzle League [DS, June 29th]
* Pokémon Diamond & Pearl [DS, July 27th]

America:
* Pokémon Battle Revolution [Wii, June 25th]
* Picross DS [DS, July 30th]
* Mario Strikers Charged[Wii, July 30th]
* Heroes of Mana [DS, August 14th]
* Madden NFL 2008 [Wii, August 14th]

Japan:
* Itadaki Street DS [DS, June 21st]
* The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass [DS, June 23rd]

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

* Total number of connections for the week was 4,414,906, a bit down from last weeks peak at 4,499,563.

* Pokémon Diamond & Pokémon Pearl had a total share of all the connections made this week of 53.24%. The games in the Top 10 was responsible for a massive 88.01% of all connections.

* The game closest to Top 10 this week was Clubhouse Games with 42,532 connections. Behind it is Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster World Championship 2007 with 41,541 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

GOGO Pearl 1 million!

thank you very much for the info.

what i like most is the overview of coming online games, nice to know that.

What are the online features of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker ?

Hmm, what about FF3 in Europe? :O

turkification said:

GOGO Pearl 1 million!

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It actually reached 1 million a few weeks ago. It'd be nice to see it up there for good, though. If nothing else works, wait for the european release, that is sure to give the game a major boost.

Kuran said:

What are the online features of Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker ?

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I don't own the game, so someone might know the exact details a lot better, but I think you can download other players teams and battle them.

Nibelung Valesti said:

Hmm, what about FF3 in Europe? :O

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I don't know anything region-based, but Final Fantasy III worldwide ranks #13 this week with 38,379 connections.

Mario Strikers is doing absolutely well. It has been released only in Europe an the connections are almost the same as Mario Kart on the DS. THis is absolutely amazing!

BTW, Animal Crossing still amazes me. Who would have thought that the online mode of the game it's that much popular?

tanasten said:

Mario Strikers is doing absolutely well. It has been released only in Europe an the connections are almost the same as Mario Kart on the DS. THis is absolutely amazing!

BTW, Animal Crossing still amazes me. Who would have thought that the online mode of the game it's that much popular?

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Admit it Tanasten - most of the Strikers connections are you

I've been playing mostly Picross & Strikers online recently.

The fact that Pokemon has barely budged from the top is very impressive.

Initially my plan was to provide you with a complete list once a month, but I rather quickly found out that that wasn't handy for me with the time I had on my hands, but it also wasn't really interesting at all as most games beneath the Top 10 doesn't change that much from month to month. Today I had some free time though, so I thought I'd at least give you the complete list once. All previously stated notes are still noted.

************1000k+************
01. Pokémon Diamond - 1,400,798 connections

************500k-1000k************
02. Pokémon Pearl - 949,846 connections

************100k-300k************
03. Animal Crossing: Wild World - 380,116 connections
04. Mario Kart DS - 307,965 connections
05. Mario Strikers Charged Football - 275,920 connections
06. Metroid Prime Hunters - 225,001 connections
07. Jump! Ultimate Stars - 116,866 connections
08. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 106,899 connections

************50k-100k************
09. Tetris DS - 67,357 connections
10. Pokémon Battle Revolution - 54,769 connections

************25k-50k************
11. Clubhouse Games - 42,532 connections
12. Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster World Championship 2007 - 41,541 connections
13. Final Fantasy III - 38,479 connections
14. Sangokushi Taisen DS - 36,943 connections
15. Puyo Puyo! 15th Anniversary - 30,482 connections
16. Planet Puzzle League - 25,327 connections

************10k-25k************
17. Fushigi no Dungeon DS - 24,893 connections
18. Professor Layton - 23,173 connections
19. Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin - 22,356 connections
20. Pro Evolution Soccer DS - 19,483 connections
21. Custom Robo Arena - 19,218 connections
22. Mahjong Kakutou Club DS - 15,893 connections
23. Picross DS - 15,457 connections
24. Diddy Kong Racing - 14,365 connections
25. Custom Beat Battle: Draglade - 13,962 connections
26. Spectrobes - 13,278 connections
27. Star Fox Command - 12,420 connections
28. Yu-Gi-Oh! Spirit Caller - 11,873 connections
29. Bleach DS 2nd - 10,544 connections
30. Mario vs Donkey Kong 2: March of the Minis - 10,353 connections

************1k-10k************
31. Digimon Story: Sunlight - 9,978 connections
32. Shin Lucky * Star - 8,802 connections
33. Kazujin Taisen - 6,702 connections
34. Otana no Joushikiryoku Training DS - 6,380 connections
35. Naruto RPG 3 - 6,241 connections
36. Digimon World DS - 6,015 connections
37. Digimon Story: Moonlight - 5,226 connections
38. Final Fantasy Fables: Chocobo Tales - 5,112 connections
39. Lost Magic - 4,562 connections
40. Harvest Moon: The Island I Develop with You - 4,169 connections
41. Bomberman Land Touch! - 3,545 connections
42. Pogo Island - 3,311 connections
43. Tony Hawk's American Sk8land - 2,489 connections
44. Atsumare! Power Pro Kun no DS Koushien - 2,343 connections
45. Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam - 1,886 connections
46. Jet Impulse - 1,596 connections
47. Wi-Fi Yakuman - 1,589 connections
48. Jissen Pachi-Slot Pachinko Hisshouhou! Sammy's Collection Hokuto no Ken Wii - 1,569 connections
49. Heroes of Mana - 1,515 connections
50. Mega Man Star Force: Pegasus - 1,510 connections
51. Bomberman Story DS - 1,470 connections
52. Mega Man Star Force: Leo - 1,060 connections
53. Mega Man Star Force: Dragon - 1,035 connections

************The rest************
54. Kenkou Ouen Recipe 1000 - 945 connections
55. Doreamon Nobita no Shin Makai Daibouken DS - 860 connections
56. Boktai: Django & Sabata - 737 connections
57. Bleach DS - 637 connections
58. Tank Beat - 572 connections
59. Luminous Arc - 565 connections
60. Dragon Sakura DS - 538 connections
61. Contact - 524 connections
62. Open Season - 391 connections
63. Marvel Trading Card Game - 340 connections
64. Wi-Fi Taiou Morita Shogi DS - 281 connections
65. Rune Factory - 255 connections
66. Tenchu: Dark Secret - 252 connections
67. Mawashite Tsunugeru Touch Panic - 68 connections
68. Konductra - 27 connections
69. Puppynu Vector One - 16 connections
70. Elebits - 3 connections
71. Kuri Kuri DS Otasuke Island - 2 connections

Does Luminous Ark let you do 1 on 1 battles with your squad online?

If so, which is such a sweet concept, it sure is doing pretty poorly in the online department, heh

Bo130 said:

Initially my plan was to provide you with a complete list once a month, but I rather quickly found out that that wasn't handy for me with the time I had on my hands, but it also wasn't really interesting at all as most games beneath the Top 10 doesn't change that much from month to month. Today I had some free time though, so I thought I'd at least give you the complete list once. All previously stated notes are still noted.

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Monthly Top 30 or Top 50 should be sufficient. Thanks for the complete list.