Japan's Top-Selling Games (Aug 24–30): Rhythm Heaven Groove Holds #1; ELDEN RING Switch 2 Debuts at #2

Famitsu's retail ranking for the week of August 24–30 (reported by Anime News Network) lists weekly physical sales and cumulative totals for Japan. Rhythm Heaven Groove for Nintendo Switch retained the #1 position for a fourth straight week. A major new physical release, ELDEN RING Tarnished Edition for Switch 2, entered at #2 with a solid first-week showing.

First-week entries and multi-platform releases

ELDEN RING Tarnished Edition (Switch 2) debuted at #2 with 27,604 copies sold in its first reported week. That put it directly behind Rhythm Heaven Groove in weekly sales.

Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 appears multiple times on the list across platforms and formats. Its PS5 entry is at #3 with 12,691 weekly copies. Two Switch entries also chart: a Switch 2 entry at #6 with 8,624 and a Switch entry at #8 with 5,590.

Catalog titles with high cumulative totals

Several long-running or older titles continue to contribute large lifetime sales totals. Rhythm Heaven Groove, while still charting weekly, has reached 945,929 total copies. Tomodachi Life on Switch registers 1,585,656 total copies, and Minecraft (Switch) shows 4,270,409 cumulative copies. Mario Kart World on Switch 2 and Pokémon Pokopia on Switch 2 both exceed the million mark in total copies (3,023,957 and 1,118,905 respectively).

Splatoon Raiders (Switch 2) remains a strong performer, at #4 with 11,891 weekly copies and a cumulative total of 638,262. Sports and party titles such as Powerful Pro Baseball 2026–2027 and It Takes Two continue to appear in the top 20 alongside remasters and compilations, indicating a mixed chart where new releases, remasters/collections, and evergreen catalog sellers all coexist.

• A rhythm game holding #1 for a fourth week indicates steady consumer demand for the title and ongoing retail traction.
• A high-profile AAA release on a new console generation — ELDEN RING Tarnished Edition for Switch 2 — can drive substantial first-week physical sales but still trail a consistently selling title in a given week.
• Cross-platform compilation releases (like Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2) can spread sales across formats and show up multiple times in a single weekly chart.