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[Bo130]

A new game was released in Europe this week, Worms: Open Warfare 2 which has done a pretty good start, see more below. Soon the new Pokémon Dungeon games, with online, will be released in Japan, which will be very interesting to follow!

After a few weeks outside the chart, Mega Man Star Force is all off this week. Madden NFL 2008 for Wii falls off the Top 10 as well, being 12th this week. It'll be interesting to see if upcoming sports games from EA, FIFA and NBA Live, can have the same kind of success online.

What's more, we had the most active day so far on the service this week, as I recall it. Saturday 897,780 connections were made. I can't remember that number being any higher previously, but I'm not able to check up on it.

The complete chart for week 35 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 by me three weeks ago. See it here for comparison.

---------------------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 - 3,041,804 connections*
2. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 444,928 connections
3. [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 355,521 connections
4. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 293,920 connections
5. [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 224,600 connections
6. [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 159,351 connections
7. [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 147,490 connections
8. [NDS] Transformers: Autobots & Decepticons - 94,780 connections**
9. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 83,667 connections
10. [NDS] Tetris DS - 58,111 connections

* Pokémon Diamond - 1,790,690 | Pokémon Pearl - 1,251,114
** Transformers: Autobots - 45,491 | Transformers: Decepticons - 49,289

For comparison, last weeks chart:

1. [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 3,139,034 connections*
2. [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 474,066 connections
3. [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 357,767 connections
4. [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 351,723 connections
5. [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 236,289 connections
6. [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 165,888 connections
7. [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 122,921 connections
8. [NDS] Transformers: Autobots & Decepticons - 114,146 connections**
9. [NDS] Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker - 79,695 connections
10. [WII] Madden NFL 2008 - 61,415 connections

* Pokémon Diamond - 1,852,508 | Pokémon Pearl - 1,286,526
** Transformers: Autobots - 60,222 | Transformers: Decepticons - 53,924

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

Europe | [WII] Madden NFL 2008 | 42,827 connections
Europe | [NDS] Worms: Open Warfare 2 | 12,614 connections
USA | [NDS] Luminous Arc | 3,233 connections
USA | [NDS] Rune Factory | 7,363 connections
USA | [NDS] Heroes of Mana | 2,703 connections
USA | [NDS] Madden NFL 2008 | 1,908 connections
USA | [WII] Madden NFL 2008 | 42,827 connections
Japan | [WII] Sharuui * Takoron | 489 connections
Japan | [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates | 24,207 connections

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

Europe:
* Sonic Rush Adventures [DS, September 28th]
* 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:
* Hooked! Real Motion Fishing [Wii, September 3rd]
* Worms: Open Warfare 2 [DS, September 4th]
* 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]
* 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:
* Kidou Gekidan Haro Ichiza: Gundam Mahjong + Z: Sara ni Deki Ruyouni Nattana! [DS, September 6th]
* Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki no Tankentai [DS, September 13th]
* Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Yami no Tankentai [DS, September 13th]
* Elemental Monster [DS, September 20th]
* Mario Strikers Charged [Wii, September 20th]
* Famista DS [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]
* World Soccer Winning Eleven DS: Goal x Goal! [DS, October 25th]
* Dungeon Explorer: Jashin no Ryouiki [DS, November 15th]

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

* Total number of connections for the week was 5,645,875, only a bit down from last weeks 5,840,204.

* Pokémon Diamond & Pokémon Pearl had a total share of all the connections made this week of 53.88%. The games in the Top 10 was responsible for a massive 86.86% of all connections.

* The game closest to Top 10 this week was Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monster World Championship 2007 with 45,831 connections. Behind it was Madden NFL 2008 (Wii) with 42,827 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

 

[BuzzJive]

Don't want this thread to go by without anybody giving you a response. I always glance through these charts every week. Thanks for putting them together.

 

[CTLance]

Thanks for all the hard work. I always enjoy reading the connection charts, and finally I can say so.

 

[Johnny Ryall]

Tetris online is all I play on my DS besides GBA games. Good to see it climbing.

 

[Hcoregamer00]

Damn, people really love their pokemon.

 

[WildArms]

Don't want this thread to go by without anybody giving you a response. I always glance through these charts every week. Thanks for putting them together.

Same here. I read every word of it every single week, and even look forward to the next chart, but I just don't know what to say about them.

I guess when more big Wii games get released (Mario kart, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros. etc) we'll have things to talk about.

 

[nli10]

Cheers for the Worms numbers I really fancy that game - some places have it for £20 and some for £30 at the moment though which is odd.

 

[Phife Dawg]

Thx.

Was Madden Wii online ever fixed?

 

[Neomoto]

It's sad seeing Strikers falling each week Good numbers about most others though

 

[XSX]

Europe | [NDS] Worms: Open Warfare 2 | 12,614 connections

This is good. Hopefully it will get good support from NA.

 

[Bo130]

Worms 2 should be able to reach 20k this week.

I also see I forgot Tiger Woods 2008 for Nintendo DS. That game had 1,152 connections last week.

And then I noticed that an upcoming Wii-game had an awful lot of connections a few days ago. The code RNR had 8,809 connections thursday, most of these made during night-time, so it's most likely a japanese developer.
I only recall this once before, that was Bass Fishing Wii, which suddenly had a single day with 20k connections way before the date of release.

 

[Bo130]

What's more, we had the most active day so far on the service this week, as I recall it. Saturday 897,780 connections were made. I can't remember that number being any higher previously, but I'm not able to check up on it.

Hm, this is strange. Monday had an unordinary low number of connections and tuesday and wednesday it went even further down. 898k connections saturday down to around 577k connections wednesday, it seems.

Has anyone experienced problems with the service these last few days? It's a very sudden, great fall.

 

[Vilix]

Don't want this thread to go by without anybody giving you a response. I always glance through these charts every week. Thanks for putting them together.

Seconded. Keep up the good work, Bo.

 

[Arde5643]

Thanks for the update - keep up the good work.