The company has faced criticism for the fact that the physical version is distributed via Game Key-Card, a cartridge in a box that requires downloading game files from the internet. But this didn't stop Nintendo Switch 2 owners: the new game is being actively bought up in Japan, the UK, and the USA.
According to IGN, the boxed version of Pokémon Pokopia is already hard to find in American stores. Due to high demand, Amazon has raised the price to $80. Even at this price, the game quickly sold out on Amazon and is currently unavailable there. A similar situation is observed at Walmart, GameStop, and Target.
A similar picture in the UK. According to analysts, stores received too few copies of Pokémon Pokopia. The head of The Game Business, Chris Dring, claims that as a result, sales of physical versions of the game did not even reach half the results of Pokémon Legends Z‑A, despite the high interest.