Pokemon Pokopia Version 2.0.1 Fixes a Ho-Oh and Lugia Loop and Two Freeze Bugs

The Pokemon Company pushed Pokemon Pokopia version 2.0.1 to Nintendo Switch 2 on 8 September, a small maintenance patch with six listed bug fixes and no new content. The headline fix stops Ho-Oh and Lugia from repeatedly dropping into your island and vanishing again, a glitch players had been running into since the game's big 2.0.0 update in August.

What Pokemon Pokopia version 2.0.1 actually fixes

The publisher listed the patch on the game's Japanese site, and every entry is a bug fix rather than a balance or feature change. Each one is described as happening "in certain situations", which is the studio's usual phrasing for an edge case rather than something every save file hits.

• Ho-Oh and Lugia could repeatedly fall into the world and then disappear
• Searching for a Pokemon in the Pokedex could fail to find one that should be there
• The Moving Kit could not be picked up
• Sound effects could loop and play over and over
• The game could stop responding
• Loading screens could hang without progressing

Two of those six are hard stops. A freeze and a stuck loading screen both cost you whatever you had not saved, so this is worth installing even if you never saw the legendary birds misbehave.

Do you have to install it?

For online play, yes. The publisher's notice repeats the standard requirement that the newest update is needed for any online feature, so an out-of-date console will be locked out of visiting other islands. Local wireless has a stricter rule: everyone in the session has to be on the same version number, so one person on 2.0.0 blocks the whole group.

Solo, offline play still works on the older build. You just keep the bugs.

The patch downloads automatically for anyone with automatic updates switched on. To force it, highlight Pokemon Pokopia on the Switch 2 home menu, press the + button, and choose Software Update, then Via the Internet. The version number in the top-right corner of that screen should read 2.0.1 once it lands.

English patch notes are still catching up

At the time of writing, the change list had gone up on the game's Japanese site but the English-language notes had not yet appeared. The fixes above come from the publisher's own Japanese notice, which is the primary source for this update — the wording in the eventual English notes may differ slightly, but the list of bugs is the studio's own.

That lag is normal for Pokopia. The 2.0.0 notes in August followed the same pattern.

Where 2.0.1 sits after the August update

Version 2.0.0 arrived on 5 August and was the game's first major content drop: a free half that taught your Ditto the Dive move for underwater exploration, and a paid half in Expansion Pass Part 1: Bubbly Basin. That is a lot of new systems landing at once, and 2.0.1 reads like the clean-up pass — the Pokedex search failure and the Moving Kit pickup bug both touch things the expansion leans on.

The game has done well enough to justify the maintenance. The Pokemon Company confirmed in August that Pokopia had passed 5 million copies sold in a little over four months, making it one of the strongest first-year sellers on Switch 2. It launched on 5 March 2026 as a Switch 2 exclusive, developed by The Pokemon Company with Game Freak and Koei Tecmo Games, and priced at 8,980 yen in Japan for both the physical game-key card and the digital version.

Other Switch 2 housekeeping this month

Pokopia is not the only Switch 2 title being patched right now. Pikmin 3 Deluxe update 1.2.0 added GameShare and a sharper image, but only for players on the newer console. On the system side, Nintendo spent last week reversing a wave of accidental console bans throwing error 2124-4508, which had locked affected owners out of online play entirely.

There is more coming today. Nintendo is running back-to-back broadcasts, and our rundown of the Nintendo Direct start time and running order covers the 30-minute Zelda 40th anniversary show and the 45-minute general Direct that follows it.