Mario Strikers Boosts Nintendo Wi-Fi Service
Wii's first 'proper' online game does the business
SPOnG’s been thoroughly enjoying the bank holiday rain over the last three days, as it’s given us even more of an opportunity and excuse (not that we need one) to cane the Wii’s first proper online game, Mario Strikers: Charged Football (pictured).
It seems plenty of other eager Wii gamers across Europe have been taking the same opportunity with the game shooting straight in at number three in the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection charts, generating a 20% boost in the use of the NWC service over the bank holiday weekend just gone.
Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl DS games – currently only available in Japan and the US – both continue to top the NWF chart. European Pokemon fans who have not already picked up either game on import, will finally get hold of them when they are released over here later in July.
Pokémon Battle Revolution on Wii, currently only out in Japan, is finally released in the US on June 25th, with a European release date (to be confirmed) soon after.
Top 10 games on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection - Saturday 26th May (Total activity 911,854)
1. Pokémon Diamond (269,458 players, Japan/US only)
2. Pokémon Pearl (187,864, Japan/US only)
3. Mario Strikers: Charged Football (151,785, Euro only, Wii)
4. Animal Crossing: Wild World (68,100)
5. Mario Kart DS (59,083)
6. Metroid: Prime Hunters (39,700)
7. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (21,115, Japan only)
8. Jump! Ultimate Stars (20,484, Japan only)
9. Pokémon Battle Revolution (13,003, Japan only, Wii)
10. Tetris DS (12,377)
You can check out SPOnG's review of Mario Strikers: Charged Football here to find out why we are so taken with Mario's lovely little online arcade knock-about.
Source: Pocket Gamer
It seems plenty of other eager Wii gamers across Europe have been taking the same opportunity with the game shooting straight in at number three in the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection charts, generating a 20% boost in the use of the NWC service over the bank holiday weekend just gone.
Pokémon Diamond and Pokémon Pearl DS games – currently only available in Japan and the US – both continue to top the NWF chart. European Pokemon fans who have not already picked up either game on import, will finally get hold of them when they are released over here later in July.
Pokémon Battle Revolution on Wii, currently only out in Japan, is finally released in the US on June 25th, with a European release date (to be confirmed) soon after.
Top 10 games on the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection - Saturday 26th May (Total activity 911,854)
1. Pokémon Diamond (269,458 players, Japan/US only)
2. Pokémon Pearl (187,864, Japan/US only)
3. Mario Strikers: Charged Football (151,785, Euro only, Wii)
4. Animal Crossing: Wild World (68,100)
5. Mario Kart DS (59,083)
6. Metroid: Prime Hunters (39,700)
7. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker (21,115, Japan only)
8. Jump! Ultimate Stars (20,484, Japan only)
9. Pokémon Battle Revolution (13,003, Japan only, Wii)
10. Tetris DS (12,377)
You can check out SPOnG's review of Mario Strikers: Charged Football here to find out why we are so taken with Mario's lovely little online arcade knock-about.
Source: Pocket Gamer
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Games: Mario Strikers Charged Football Pokemon Battle Revolution Pokémon Diamond Pokémon Pearl
Games: Mario Strikers Charged Football Pokemon Battle Revolution Pokémon Diamond Pokémon Pearl
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tweek 29 May 2007 16:32
1/3
it's also been generating a fair few server crashes, the service was down for large parts of saturday and sunday and the ranking system seems a bit messed up. Hardly suprising given the volume of peeps trying to use it I suppose but I thought nintendo would have been better prepared.
cracking fun anyway, although all my games seem to spiral into brawls of comedy violence.
cracking fun anyway, although all my games seem to spiral into brawls of comedy violence.
TimSpong 29 May 2007 17:24
2/3
tweek wrote:
it's also been generating a fair few server crashes, the service was down for large parts of saturday and sunday and the ranking system seems a bit messed up. Hardly suprising given the volume of peeps trying to use it I suppose but I thought nintendo would have been better prepared.
Interesting - where are you in the world?
tweek wrote:
cracking fun anyway, although all my games seem to spiral into brawls of comedy violence.
There's nothing more comic than spiralling brawls of violence between soccer-kicking Nintendo characters - as long as they keep it in the stadium and don't take it out onto the internet. That could be dangerous. I wouldn't want to see Bowser trying to "take" Master Chief's end, or Wario chucking sharpened 10,000-yen coins at the cute little characters from LittleBigPlanet.
There must be limits.
tweek 31 May 2007 11:00
3/3
Am from Northern Ireland myself, the service has picked up since that post and now seems reliable and relatively lag free so all smiles here.
Ah yes the brawls... for whole matches the ball can just sit in the centre while total war rages around it. Well if total war equals multiple shells and barely a player standing. Really good for releasing that pent up aggression ;)
Ah yes the brawls... for whole matches the ball can just sit in the centre while total war rages around it. Well if total war equals multiple shells and barely a player standing. Really good for releasing that pent up aggression ;)