Pokemon Pokopia’s Physical Price Has Been Upped To $80 On Amazon

Pokemon Pokopia is a Switch 2 system seller, and it seems like Nintendo might not have anticipated just how popular it was going to be. Physical copies of Pokopia have already become incredibly hard to find, and Amazon, one of the few sites that still has them in stock, has upped the price from $70 to $80.

Physical copies of Pokopia are sold out pretty much everywhere in the US. However, Amazon has been sporadically restocking the latest Switch 2 exclusive throughout the weekend. It even has some copies available right now. You’re going to have to pay more than MSRP for them, though, as the price of Pokopia jumped up by $10 on Amazon overnight.

Amazon Is Charging $80 For Pokopia

At first glance, you might think that the page belongs to a third-party seller attempting to capitalize on the FOMO some of you might be experiencing, as it feels like everyone on the planet has been playing Pokopia these past few days. But no, these $80 copies of Pokopia are coming directly from Amazon.

The price of Pokopia switched from $70 to $80 on Amazon at exactly midnight EST on Monday morning. That suggests there might be some sort of formula in place that tracks product popularity and stock levels and uses what some might refer to as dynamic pricing to adjust costs accordingly. Nothing more than an educated guess on my part, but it seems more likely than someone at Amazon HQ deciding to try and get a little more out of Pokemon fans and hitting the “increase price” button at exactly midnight.

Pokopia Isn’t Nintendo’s Second $80 Game, Not Officially

Since this appears to be an Amazon edict, or maybe even just a formula doing its thing, this doesn’t make Pokopia the second $80 game. Its Switch 2 sibling Mario Kart World is still the only game, regardless of platform, to have pulled off the $80 bit. Nintendo’s announcement that its first Switch 2 game would cost $80 instead of the triple-A industry standard $70 had some worried everyone might follow suit, but so far, that hasn’t happened.

We probably have Xbox to thank for that, in part. It tried to hop on the $80 bandwagon Nintendo kick-started by charging that higher price for The Outer Worlds 2. Xbox quickly backed off, presumably due to low pre-order numbers, as within weeks of announcing the Obsidian sequel’s price, it dropped the $80 game back down to $70.

As for Pokopia, Amazon’s price increase aside, the first two big releases of 2026 have provided positive signs for those who still prefer to buy physical copies of their games. Both the latest Pokemon game and Resident Evil Requiem’s physical editions sold out quickly during their respective launch windows. A sign that a lot of people still prefer buying physical, or maybe just evidence that studios are printing fewer physical copies of games.

Systems

Released

March 5, 2026

ESRB

Everyone / Users Interact, In-Game Purchases

Publisher(s)

Nintendo, The Pokemon Company

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