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Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/em> is only a week old, and it’s already one of the Nintendo Switch 2’s best-selling titles. On Thursday, Nintendo announced the Pok\u00e9mon spinoff sold over 2.2 million copies in its first four days on sale, with 1 million of those in Japan alone.<\/p>\n Those 2.2 million sales are good enough to make it the fourth-best-selling title on Switch 2 behind Pok\u00e9mon Legends: Z-A \u2013 Nintendo Switch 2 Edition<\/em> (3.89 million), Donkey Kong Bananza<\/em> (4.25 million), and Mario Kart World<\/em> (a whopping 14.03 million). Kirby Air Riders<\/em> rounds out the top five with 1.76 million copies sold. There is a caveat to this in that the data for the other games in the top five captures sales until the end of 2025, so there is a slight chance Kirby Air Riders<\/em> sold more than Pokopia<\/em>‘s 2.2 million with its 2026 sales factored in. Even if that’s the case, though, being in the top five is still a feather in Pokopia<\/em>‘s cap.<\/p>\n It’s not like Nintendo Switch 2 owners aren’t starved for first-party offerings, either. Nearly every month since its launch, a new flagship title has been released for Nintendo Switch 2. Sometimes they’re full games, like December’s Metroid Prime 4<\/em> and February’s Mario Tennis Fever<\/em>. Other months have gotten expansions for great Switch games, like August’s Kirby and the Forgotten Land<\/em>‘s Star-Crossed World<\/em> upgrade. (And they’ve all made it onto our list of best Switch 2 games.)<\/p>\n Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/em> has done well relative to other Pok\u00e9mon spinoff games as well. As the King of Pok\u00e9mon himself Joe Merrick pointed out on X, Pokopia<\/em> is one of 13 Pok\u00e9mon spinoffs to sell over two million copies. (And there’s been a lot<\/em> of spinoffs over the series’ nine generations thus far.)<\/p>\n Physical copies of Pokopia<\/em> were briefly sold out for a time, and Amazon temporarily raised the game’s price to $80 in response. (It’s back in stock at major retailers, and back to $69.99 at Amazon, at this time of writing.) Pokopia<\/em> has done so well that Nintendo’s stock gained over 10% in value, Bloomberg recently reported.<\/p>\n Players and critics alike have been loving Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia<\/em> as it’s also one of the Switch 2’s best-reviewed games. It sits at an 89 on both OpenCritic and Metacritic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is only a week old, and it’s already one of the Nintendo Switch 2’s best-selling titles. On Thursday, Nintendo announced the Pok\u00e9mon spinoff sold over 2.2 million copies in its first four days on sale, with 1 million of those in Japan alone. Those 2.2 million sales are good enough to make it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[3954,77,389,1811,314],"class_list":{"0":"post-5561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-latest-news","8":"tag-bestselling","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-pokemon","11":"tag-pokopia","12":"tag-switch"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beteja.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}