One Switch 2 Players in 5 Has Bought This Cozy Pokémon Game

The game soars above five million sales in just four months Pokémon Pokopia's success shouldn't come as much of a surprise, given how well it was received by both critics and players alike at launch. On Metacritic, it has an average critic score of 89 and a user score of 8.7. Meanwhile, OpenCritic says 97% of critics recommend it, and it has a player rating of 100. Those are some impressive scores. Our own review called it a "charming life sim." However, when you contextualize that with the specific sales figures it becomes even more impressive. Over five million players own Pokémon Pokopia, according to a press release, which translates to 21% of Nintendo Switch 2's 23.68 million owners. This also means it's the second-best-selling game on the console, behind only Mario Kart World with a whopping 15 million… but that was also the only game that came bundled with the Switch 2 when the console launched, so does it really count? Pokémon Pokopia was a gamble by The Pokémon Company. Pokémon is huge, but there has never been an official game in the series that focuses so heavily on building a community and developing the relationships between different Pokémon. It's essentially Animal C