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Five million copies sold is the number that moved Nintendo's stock. Nintendo shares jumped 7% after Pokémon Pokopia crossed that threshold.
The result carries extra weight because rising memory prices, meaning the chips that store game data inside consoles and cartridges, had already forced Nintendo to raise the retail price of its Switch 2, a console that went on sale just over a year ago.
What the price increase put at stake Raising the price of a console is a decision to pass costs to the buyer rather than absorb them. That move carries commercial risk.
A more expensive piece of hardware asks buyers to commit more money before they own a single game, which can slow how fast a platform grows its audience.
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