Amazon Has Decided Pokopia Is An $80 Game Amid High Demand For Physical Copies Of The Hit Pokemon Game

Amazon Has Decided Pokopia Is An $80 Game Amid High Demand For Physical Copies Of The Hit Pokemon Game

From TheGamer (Written by Josh Coulson) on | OpenCritic

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.

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...

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