It's Wednesday again and time for the WiiWare Top 20!
It's time to take a look at the most popular WiiWare titles available on the Wii Shop Channel. If you're feeling adventurous you can even take a look for yourself by simply logging on to your Wii Shop Channel, heading into the WiiWare section and then viewing "Popular Games". It's that easy!
We compile this list using the USA region Wii Shop channel, so if you live elsewhere your list will probably be quite a bit different. Please feel free to post your region's findings below as always.
Keep in mind that the list below is a measure of actual sales made recently, not of the total time the game has been available for sale.
Here is the list for the 24th of June:
1 
- Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
2 
- Texas Hold'em Tournament
3 (4) - My Aquarium
4 (5) - World of Goo
5 (3) - Swords & Soldiers
6 (6) - Tetris Party
7 (8) - My Pokémon Ranch
8 (7) - Bubble Bobble Plus
9 (9) - Dr Mario Online Rx
10 (10) - Defend Your Castle
11 (--) - Eduardo the Samurai Toaster
12 (11) - Onslaught
13 (13) - Cue Sports - Pool Revolution
14 (14) - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
15 (15) - Brain Challenge
16 (17) - Sandy Beach
17 (18) - Bomberman Blast
18 (19) - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King
19 (16) - Mega Man 9
20 (12) - Adventure Island: The Beginning
* (N) - Denotes a brand new entry on the Top 20
* (--) - Denotes a game that was not on the Top 20 last week
Well Final Fantasy IV: The After Years has managed to hold off Texas Hold'em Tournament for another week in its bid to stay atop the chart, but Swords & Soldiers wasn't so lucky as it dropped two spots to #5. My Aquarium and World of Goo didn't waste any time in beginning their climb back up the chart again. Can these two powerhouses work their way back up to the top spots again? We wouldn't bet against them.
The big climber this week was Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, which jumped from off the chart completely, all the way up to #11. Not a bad debut at all. The big dropper this week was Hudson's Adventure Island: The Beginning, which fell 8 spots to #20. Could this be its last week on the chart?
Unfortunately, with the appearance of Eduardo the Samurai Toaster, we did see Silver Star Chess drop out of the Top 20. We'll have to wait and see if it's able to climb back into the Top 20 down the line. Other than that, there wasn't a huge amount of movement this week in the Top 20.
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DsiWare Top 20 moves to Thursdays from now on. So expect it tomorrow in its new time slot.
Clearly not the FIRST time FFIV:tAY has been FIRST.
EDIT:
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Damn you Corbie...
Clearly not the FIRST time FFIV:tAY has been FIRST.
That didn't pan out did it?
Hence my edit, Mr. Dillard. =(
Once Icarian (ahem) NyxQuest comes out, it'll probably shoot to like #8.
What edit?
"Clearly not the FIRST time FFIV:tAY has been FIRST."
Epic Failz
I don't get it...
FAILED FIRSTIES
Well in all fairness, he would have had the Firsties, but I forgot to put in the part about the DSiWare Top 20 moving to Thursdays in the article.
I don't think anything will dethrone FFIV: TAY for a long time.
This is the FIRST time that's I've been FIRST.
FIRST.
Owait.
Japanese Top 20 this morning was:
1 (1) Pokemon Scramble
2 (3) Asobu Made in Ore
3 (2) Order!!
4 (4) Muscle March
5 (7) My Pokemon Ranch Platinum
6 (8) Bomberman Blast
7 (6) Pole's Big Adventure
8 (9) Game of Life
9 (5) Okiraku Daifugoo Wii: Honkaku Wi-Fi Net Taisen
10 (N) Bang Bang Kids
11 (11) Shika Gari
12 (12) Rockman 9
13 (10) World of Goo
14 (13) Final Fantasy: My Life as a King
15 (15) Dr. Mario and Germ Buster
16 (16) Blue Oasis (My Aquarium)
17 (18) Game Sound Station
18 (17) Contra ReBirth
19 (19) Tetris Party
20 (14) Hamekomi Lucky Puzzle Wii (Neves)
Childrens TV game drops off the chart.
Unfortunately, unless more big games come out in the coming weeks to come, I think the big three or four that were dethroned in early June will just reclaim the top positions. Sword & Soldiers was at 2 only a couple days ago, so I fear that it sold to hardcore gamers very fast and is now being pushed down just as fast. Meanwhile, Adventure Island has been on the list a while, considering. It seems only massive games can stay on the Top 20 for longer than two months, now.
Anyways, my One Year Later will be posted tomorrow.
With a flood of GOOD WiiWare Games comes a LOT of movement in the top 20 charts
When's the drill sergeant mindstrong review coming? I thought it would be out already. Or did that not get sent in till today?
The UK <3 fish:
1 (2) - My Aquarium
2 (N) - NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
3 (3) - World of Goo
4 (1) - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
5 (4) - Texas Hold'em Tournament
6 (6) - Onslaught
7 (5) - Swords & Soldiers
8 (8) - My Pokemon Ranch
9 (7) - Pop-Up Pirate!
10 (10) - Defend Your Castle
11 (9) - Bomberman Blast
12 (N) - Cocoto Platform Jumper
13 (14) - TV Show King
14 (13) - BIT.TRIP BEAT
15 (N) - Let's Catch
16 (12) - Tetris Party
17 (11) - FUN! FUN! Minigolf
18 (19) - Snowboard Riot
19 (16) - The Incredible Maze
20 (15) - Bubble Bobble Plus!
Up: My Aquarium, again. TV Show King and Snowboard Riot up one each.
Down: Loads! After Years didn't hold on long. Minigolf down 6, Bubble Bobble down 5.
Hello: Kindred Spirits debuts at 2, Let's Catch at 15. Took a while but Cocoto enters at 12.
Goodbye: My Life As A King, Fish'em All and Equilibrio.
@ Longtimegamer - I'm a bit busy. I've already had to do the NEVES Plus review and now I'm doing Top 20 not to mention all of this news, uploading two new videos, and a stack of press releases I have to go through. I'll get to the Drill Sergeant review later tonight when things slow down. It's a bit crazy here right now.
lol, at least I never try to hide my first comments
I havn't looked at the top 20 in quite some time and its good to see a new 1 and 2, but... My Aquarium? still in the top 3? It's like mandatory for you to get MA if you buy a Wii it seems.
My Pokémon Ranch climbed a bit...
I like MA :/ it Is quite relaxing when ur stress levels reach the clouds.
I'm seriously beting BTCore and Nyx for at least top 10.
@Schembeck
MA IS relaxing. I have it as well, I just don't think it's top 3 material. I hope Eduardo TST makes top 3 next week, it deserves it.
i am not shocked to see ff4 still number 1 wii gamers are craving a good rpg even if its broken into episodes and after more get released next month i plan on getting a copy but so many great games are falling and after great titles like cave story and super meat boy come out it be getting crazy
@corbie- Ok. Thanks. Don't mean to harass you.
Swedish Top 20:
(1) 1 - Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
(-) 2 - Icarian: Kindred Spirits
(2) 3 - World Of Goo
(3) 4 - Swords & Soldiers
(5) 5 - Bubble Bobble Plus!
(4) 6 - Texas Hold'em Tournament
(9) 7 - Mega Man 9
(6) 8 - Onslaught
(12) 9 - Cocoto Platform Jumper
(14) 10 - Bit.Trip: Beat
(10) 11 - My Aquarium
(16) 12 - My Pokémon Ranch
(15) 13 - Bomberman Blast
(13) 14 - Defend Your Castle
(7) 15 - Fun! Fun! Minigolf
(8) 16 - Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King*
(11) 17 - Tetris Party
(18) 18 - Rainbow Islands Towering Adventure!
(19) 19 - LostWinds*
(R) 20 - Adventure Island: The Beginning
Germany:
(1) 1 My Aquarium
(-) 2 Icarian: Kindred Spirits
(3) 3 Texas Hold'em Tournament
(4) 4 World of Goo
(2) 5 FF4 The After Years
(7) 6 Fun Fun Minigolf
(9) 7 Onslaught
(6) 8 TV Show King
(8) 9 My Pokemon Ranch
(5) 10 Swords & Soldiers
(16) 11 Cocoto Platform Jumper
(11) 12 Bomberman Blast
(10) 13 Tetris Party
(12) 14 Brain Challenge
(13) 15 Pop-Up Pirate
(17) 16 Snowboard Riot
(19) 17 SAMEGAME
(14) 18 Bubble Bobble Plus
(15) 19 Equilibrio
(-) 20 Let's Catch
This week's goners are FFCCMLAAK and Fish 'em All. I suspect Icarian will do a spike and drop.
Didn't see anyone make a Dutch list (or did so in the past) so I though I post one. I don't know the previous list, so I didn't know who have climbed or have fallen from the list. I'll add that next week.
So here's the Dutch list from 25-6:
1 My Aquarium
2 Texas Hold'em Tournament
3 Swords & Soldiers
4 NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
5 My Pokémon Ranch
6 Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
7 TV Show King
8 World of Goo
9 Brain Challenge
10 Onslaught
11 Cocoto Platform Jumper
12 FUN! FUN! Minigolf
13 Tetris Party
14 Snowboard Riot
15 Pop Them, Drop Them SAMEGAME
16 EQUILIBRIO
17 Bomberman Blast
18 SPOGS Racing
19 Defend your Castle
20 Sudoku Challenge!
SPOGS and Sudoku's charting?! Really?! These little regional differences sure are peculiar to think about... And no Mega Man there either, makes that game's run in Sweden so much more stand out.
@corbie- Ok. Thanks. Don't mean to harass you.
Oh you're not harassing me, I'm just a bit swamped at the moment. It's slowing down a bit now. Thank goodness.
@Djungelurban - Yeah, we Dutch people are pretty stupid . I'm kidding of course. But I can't believe we are buying crappy games like SPOGS and Texas Hold'em Tournament. I also don't understand why My Aquarium is on top of the list. I understand that someone could get some fun out of an interactive screensaver but the bestselling WiiWare game? Really?
I knew World would lose it's title sooner or later, but I didn't think it would lose to Final Fantasy.
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