Onimusha: Way Of The Sword Tops Japan's Game Rankings
The new Onimusha's opening week is split across two platforms that land first and third on the same chart, so the two releases together outsell every other title on the list by a wide margin.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Famitsu's ranking for August 31 to September 6 puts Onimusha: Way of the Sword at the top on PS5 with 76,530 copies sold in its release week of September 4. A Switch 2 version of the same game sits third at 19,499 copies. Rhythm Heaven Groove holds second on Switch with 29,360 weekly copies, and Splatoon Raiders is fourth at 10,267.
Famitsu's weekly software chart for August 31 to September 6 is led by a Capcom revival, with the PS5 version of Onimusha: Way of the Sword selling 76,530 copies in its opening week and the Switch 2 version adding 19,499. The Nintendo Switch back catalog still carries the rest of the top ten: Rhythm Heaven Groove, Splatoon Raiders, Tomodachi Life, and Mario Kart World all remain in the running on cumulative sales. Two other September 3 releases, The Blood of Dawnwalker and Orbitals, enter at seventh and ninth.
The chart covers physical software sales in Japan for the week, compiled by Famitsu.
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword (PS5, CAPCOM): 1st, 76,530 weekly copies, released September 4
- Rhythm Heaven Groove (NSw, Nintendo): 2nd, 29,360 weekly copies, 975,289 total
- Onimusha: Way of the Sword (NSw 2, CAPCOM): 3rd, 19,499 weekly copies, released September 4
- Splatoon Raiders (NSw 2, Nintendo): 4th, 10,267 weekly copies, 648,529 total
- Tomodachi Life (NSw, Nintendo): 5th, 9,880 weekly copies, 1,596,536 total
- ELDEN RING Tarnished Edition (NSw 2, FromSoftware): 6th, 6,559 weekly copies, 34,163 total
- The Blood of Dawnwalker (PS5, Bandai Namco Entertainment): 7th, 4,618 weekly copies, released September 3
- Mario Kart World (NSw 2, Nintendo): 8th, 4,259 weekly copies, 3,028,216 total
- Orbitals (NSw 2, Kepler Interactive): 9th, 3,949 weekly copies, released September 3
- Minecraft (NSw, Nippon Microsoft): 10th, 3,754 weekly copies, 4,274,163 total
- It Takes Two (NSw, Electronic Arts): 11th, 3,374 weekly copies, 191,859 total
- Powerful Pro Baseball 2026-2027 (NSw, Konami): 12th, 3,349 weekly copies, 212,985 total
- Village in the Shade (NSw 2, Nippon Ichi Software): 13th, 3,184 weekly copies, 33,064 total
- Pokémon Pokopia (NSw 2, Nintendo): 14th, 3,108 weekly copies, 1,122,013 total
- Cities: Skylines Remastered Japan Special Edition (PS5, Spike Chunsoft): 15th, 3,061 weekly copies, released September 3
- Ganbare Goemon Daishūgō! (NSw, Konami): 16th, 2,412 weekly copies, 87,234 total
- Village in the Shade (NSw, Nippon Ichi Software): 17th, 2,308 weekly copies, 19,325 total
- My Hero Academia: All's Justice (NSw 2, Bandai Namco Entertainment): 18th, 2,181 weekly copies, released September 3
- Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 (PS5, Konami): 19th, 2,013 weekly copies, 14,704 total
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (NSw, Nintendo): 20th, 1,933 weekly copies, 5,947,780 total
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
Sources
- Anime News Network News Japan's Video Game Rankings, August 31-September 6