{"id":658315,"date":"2026-05-09T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658315\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:32:08","slug":"nintendo-announces-50-switch-2-price-increase-as-pokemon-pokopia-crosses-4-million-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/658315\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Announces $50 Switch 2 Price Increase as Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Crosses 4 Million Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is widely known to have been a successful launch for Nintendo, with the life sim having recently climbed its way to the top of Metacritic&#8217;s 2026 game rankings with an impressive 89 Metacritic score. Now, recent <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2026\/260508_4e.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">financial filings<\/a> indicate that Pokopia has been more than simply a critical success, with the Japanese gaming giant having sold over 4 million copies of the game in the five weeks after its launch on March 31, 2026. By comparison, Pok\u00e9mon FireRed and LeafGreen had achieved roughly the same sales figures in six weeks, while Donkey Kong Bananza and Pok\u00e9mon ZA have sold 4.52 million and 3.94 million units, respectively. <\/p>\n<p>In less positive news, however, Nintendo has also revealed that the Nintendo Switch 2 will get a price increase on September 1, 2026, to $499 in the US and \u20ac499 in the EU, while Japanese customers can expect to pay \u00a559,980, up from \u00a549,980, as soon as May 25, 2025. Nintendo expects the Switch 2 to sell 16.5 million units in the 2027 financial year, down 16.9% from the FY 2026 projection of 19.86 million units. Between the Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, Nintendo reported hardware sales of 23 million units for the same period. The Switch 2 price increase has been expected since January 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techpowerup.com\/343969\/nintendo-switch-2-hardware-hit-by-41-price-jump-in-dram-nand-up-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">thanks to rising DRAM and BOM costs across the board<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia is widely known to have been a successful launch for Nintendo, with the life sim having&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-658315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}