Guitar Hero III storms Nintendo WFC

via Computer and Video Games


Nintendo's free online service has been taken by storm with legions of rockers hitting the internet to face off against fellow five-button guitarists.

Stats for the week ending November 4 show that mighty DS titles such as Mario Kart DS, Animal Crossing: Wild World, Metroid Prime Hunters and even Zelda: Phantom Hourglass were all knocked down a slot when GH III charged in with 622,580 connections, placing second only behind the predictably popular Pokemon Diamond/Pearl games which saw an astonishing 1,455,526 connections.

The recently-released first party war game, Battalion Wars 2, only managed 35,982 connections. Good news for Activision.

Check out the full list of official figures (via NeoGAF) below:

• [NDS] Pokémon Diamond & Pearl - 1,455,526 connections*
• [WII] Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock - 622,580 connections
• [NDS] Animal Crossing: Wild World - 268,796 connections
• [NDS] Mario Kart DS - 242,202 connections
• [WII] Mario Strikers Charged - 155,239 connections
• [NDS] Metroid Prime Hunters - 154,945 connections
• [NDS] The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 126,388 connections
• [WII] Pokémon Battle Revolution - 88,287 connections
• [NDS] Pokémon Fushigi no Dungeon Toki/Yami no Tankentai - 86,818 connections**
• [NDS] Jump! Ultimate Stars - 86,588 connections

* Pokémon Diamond - 860,143 | Pokémon Pearl - 595,383
** Pokémon Dungeon Toki - 46,365 | Pokémon Dungeon Yami - 40,453