Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen have turned a controversial retro re-release into a major Switch sales result, with Nintendo saying the pair sold more than 4 million copies worldwide in their first six weeks.
The figure appears in Nintendo's latest financial materials, where the company lists the Game Boy Advance remakes among its notable software performers. It is a combined total across both versions and all territories, so it covers FireRed and LeafGreen together, not each game separately.
That is a strong return for two 2004 RPGs arriving on modern hardware with relatively few remake-style extras. Nintendo's own announcement positioned the releases as digital-only versions for Nintendo Switch, also playable on Nintendo Switch 2, with English, French and Spanish editions sold individually. The games launched on February 27 for Pokémon Day at a suggested retail price of $19.99 in the US.
The sales number also lands in the middle of a wider Switch 2 business update. Nintendo's same reporting cycle showed Switch 2 hardware slowing after a huge first fiscal year, making dependable first-party software and legacy catalogue sales more important as the console moves past its launch window.
The paid classic release still found a huge audience
FireRed and LeafGreen did not arrive as standard Nintendo Switch Online classics. Instead, Nintendo sold them as standalone purchases, a decision that drew criticism from players who expected older Game Boy Advance titles to sit inside the subscription library.
The Switch versions also became a talking point because they are not untouched ROM drops. Players noticed a modern profanity filter for names, with the change tied to the games' connection to the current Pokémon ecosystem, including Pokémon Home and the newly launched Pokémon Champions. Nintendo also made small bug fixes for the re-release.
None of that appears to have slowed the games much. Four million sales in six weeks puts the Switch versions at roughly one third of the lifetime sales attributed to the original GBA releases, which Nintendo's historical figures put at around 12 million copies.
Pokémon Pokopia gave Nintendo another big Pokémon result in the same report, with the experimental Switch 2 title also clearing 4 million copies, this time within five weeks. Together, the two numbers show how much commercial weight the series is still carrying for Nintendo, whether it is selling a new spin on the brand or repackaging one of its most familiar Kanto adventures for current hardware.