Pokémon Pokopia passes 5 million sales in just over four months

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company confirmed the figure after last week’s financial update. The relaxing life sim has become a Switch 2 system seller, and its first paid DLC added an underwater town.

Nobody expected the Pokémon game where you play as a Ditto to carry the Switch 2.

Pokémon Pokopia has sold more than 5 million units globally in just over four months, Nintendo and The Pokémon Company confirmed following last week’s financial update.

The figure covers all versions.

What Pokémon Pokopia actually is

You play as a Ditto that has transformed to look human, shaping empty land into a place Pokémon want to live. You collect berries, rocks, and wood, till fields, grow vegetables, build furniture, and construct homes.

Progress comes from learning moves from the Pokémon you meet, which then unlock what you can build and where you can go.

KOEI TECMO GAMES developed it for Switch 2.

The Bubbly Basin DLC and the 2.0 update

Nintendo is treating Pokopia as a long-support game rather than shipping a sequel.

Bubbly Basin, the first major DLC, released August 5 for Expansion Pass holders. It adds an underwater town to explore and new Water-type Pokémon to befriend, and requires the Dive move to enter.

The Dive move itself is free for all players. The expansion is not, with the paid DLC reported at around $35.

Version 2.0.0 arrived the same month and added the Portal Pod, a shared storage device letting you deposit items in one pod and retrieve them from another elsewhere on the map.

The Feebas event ends August 28

There is a limited-time event running right now.

Fetching Scales for Feebas runs August 13 through August 28, adding two Generation 3 Water-types to the game.

The structure follows the pattern of earlier events. Feebas appears outside a Pokémon Center and asks for help finding something.

Nine days left as of today.

5 million means fans are flocking to the game

Pokopia looked like a title that would sell to Pokémon completionists and then fade. It has instead become one of the popular Switch 2 releases and even spun off a Nintendo Switch 2 and Pokémon Pokopia bundle, and a separate Pokopia and Expansion Pass bundle on the eShop for people who already own the console.

The next question is whether Nintendo keeps expanding it or eventually moves on. Right now the company is doing the former.

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Hat Tips:

• Nintendo and The Pokémon Company press release (August 2026), the 5 million global sales figure and the just-over-four-months framing, via Nintendo Life

• Nintendo Life (August 2026), the Portal Pod shared storage, the Bubbly Basin DLC requirements, and the Fetching Scales for Feebas event dates

• Nintendo official site, the Pokopia premise, the KOEI TECMO development credit, and the console and Expansion Pass bundles

• NoobFeed (August 2026), the reported $35 DLC pricing and the long-support framing