{"id":7837,"date":"2026-08-14T10:24:46","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/pokemon-pokopia-5-million-sales-bubbly-basin\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T02:24:46","slug":"pokemon-pokopia-5-million-sales-bubbly-basin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/pokemon-pokopia-5-million-sales-bubbly-basin\/","title":{"rendered":"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Hits 5 Million \u2014 Bubbly Basin Is Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo Switch 2&#8217;s cosy star just hit a major number. <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia has surpassed 5 million copies sold worldwide<\/strong> \u2014 physical Game Key Cards and digital downloads combined \u2014 as confirmed by The Pok\u00e9mon Company and Nintendo on <a href=\"https:\/\/businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20260813580796\/en\/Global-Sales-of-Pokmon-Pokopia-for-Nintendo-Switch-2-Surpass-5-Million-Units\">13 August 2026<\/a>. The announcement came just days after the launch of the game&#8217;s first paid expansion, and it is hard to ignore the link.<\/p>\n<h2>Five Million in Under Five Months<\/h2>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pokopia-game-overview.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia \u2014 overhead view of the town-building game on Nintendo Switch 2, with Pok\u00e9mon helping rebuild a community\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia launched on 5 March 2026 as the Switch 2&#8217;s first dedicated Pok\u00e9mon title \u2014 a life simulation game where players control a Ditto disguised as a human, gathering materials, crafting, and building a settlement that Pok\u00e9mon will call home. The game moved 2.2 million units in its first four days. Reaching five million across five months on a still-growing hardware platform is a meaningful achievement, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendoworldreport.com\/news\/76777\/pokemon-pokopia-reaches-5-million-sales-after-first-part-of-expansion-pass\">Nintendo World Report notes<\/a> that Pokopia was the only first-party Switch 2 game to exceed 1 million shipments in the most recent fiscal quarter alone \u2014 1.27 million units in that window \u2014 pointing to sustained daily engagement rather than a launch spike.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pokopia-ditto-transformation.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ditto using a transformation ability in Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia \u2014 glowing mid-transform inside a cave environment on Nintendo Switch 2\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The five million figure covers both the base game and the recently released Expansion Pass. Pokopia is a Switch 2 exclusive with no cross-gen version, which means every sale is a player on Nintendo&#8217;s latest hardware \u2014 a strong signal heading into the second half of 2026.<\/p>\n<h2>Bubbly Basin: A Whole New Town Underwater<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"gt-video\">\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HltHYt_3sUs\" title=\"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Expansion Pass | Extended Trailer\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;\" allow=\"accelerometer;clipboard-write;encrypted-media;gyroscope;picture-in-picture;web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><figcaption>Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Expansion Pass | Extended Trailer \u2014 via The Official Pok\u00e9mon YouTube channel on YouTube<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The milestone arrived a week and a half after the 5 August 2026 launch of <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Expansion Pass \u2014 Part 1: Bubbly Basin<\/strong>. The first of three planned content drops adds an entirely new location: an abandoned underwater town that Ditto \u2014 now equipped with a Dive move introduced via free software update \u2014 can reach and rebuild from the seabed up.<\/p>\n<p>In Bubbly Basin, Water-type Pok\u00e9mon take the lead. Popplio and its line help restore structures, specialist Water-types power bubble machines and streetlights, and the whole town is themed around its underwater setting, with new furniture recipes, outfits, and even underwater watermelon crops. The full <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pokemon.com\/us\/news\/pokemon-pokopia-expansion-pass-part-1-bubbly-basin-is-available-today\">Expansion Pass<\/a> covers all three waves: Bubbly Basin is live now, Part 2 arrives in late 2026 focused on wearable accessories for Pok\u00e9mon, and Part 3 \u2014 a brand-new town \u2014 is planned for 2027. Players who purchase the pass by 31 August 2027 receive 30 rare Pok\u00e9metal ingots via serial code.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pokopia-bubbly-basin-title.png?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Expansion Pass \u2014 Bubbly Basin atmospheric title card showing the sunken underwater town at night on Nintendo Switch 2\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"><figcaption>Image courtesy of The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Singapore Players: How to Get In<\/h2>\n<p>If you picked up a Switch 2 locally \u2014 including via <a href=\"\/blog\/nintendo-switch-2-pokemon-pokopia-bundle-singapore\/\">the Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia bundle that launched in Singapore on 23 July<\/a> \u2014 the game&#8217;s free software update is already waiting on your console. That update adds the Dive move to all Pokopia owners. The full Bubbly Basin settlement \u2014 new Pok\u00e9mon collaborators, themed furniture, and recipes \u2014 unlocks with the Expansion Pass, available now on the Nintendo eShop.<\/p>\n<p>Five million is a strong marker for the Switch 2&#8217;s first year, and with two more Pokopia content waves planned through 2027, the community is only going to get bigger. Keep an eye on our <a href=\"\/blog\/category\/game-news\/\">game news<\/a> for more Switch 2 coverage as the year picks up pace.<\/p>\n<p><!--GT-SCOUT source=\"Web (English)\" theme=\"Pokemon\" flags=\"none\"--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia hits 5 million worldwide sales on Nintendo Switch 2. Singapore players can dive into the new Bubbly Basin DLC right now via the Expansion Pass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11,30],"tags":[45,1118,369,223],"class_list":["post-7837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-news","category-news","tag-nintendo-switch-2","tag-pokemon-2","tag-pokemon-pokopia","tag-pokopia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/pokopia-bubbly-basin-key-art.jpg?fit=1439%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13AlF-22p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3519,"url":"https:\/\/www.gametrader.sg\/blog\/pokemon-pokopia-expansion-pass-bubbly-basin-august-2026\/","url_meta":{"origin":7837,"position":0},"title":"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia Expansion Pass: Dive Into Bubbly Basin This August","date":"June 14, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Pok\u00e9mon Pokopia's Expansion Pass is now on the Nintendo eShop. 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