This week! The Nintendo Watchers, Justin and Matthew, sit down to talk Square Enix's latest strategy RPG, Triangle Strategy, and the division behind the game, Team Asano.

Since Pokémon Legends: Arceus was released, it has broken franchise sales records and blown away expectations. In just the first week, Arceus sold 6.5 million copies. 

(That’s faster than any other Pokémon game on the Nintendo Switch.)

So it’s clear that Arceus is, at least directionally, where the players want the Pokémon franchise to be, but in shaking up the tried-and-true formula, the Pokémon Company has raised a lot of questions with Arceus.

The Nintendo Watchers, Matthew and Justin, are joined by Jake Martin — writer, podcaster, and streamer over at BitBloggist.com — to review Arceus and talk about its place in the history of the franchise.

This week on the Nintendo Watcher Podcast, Matthew and Justin are joined by the one and only Jake Martin, writer-at-large, podcaster, and streamer over at BitBloggist. The guys discuss what might just be the greatest Nintendo Direct ever.

With announcements like Chrono Cross, Mario Strikers, Nintendo Switch Sports, Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and EarthBound (!), today’s Nintendo Direct surprised us. It inspired us. And it amazed us.

We're back! After some time off for the holidays, the Nintendo Watchers are back! Matthew and Justin discuss the latest Nintendo 64 games to land on the Nintendo Switch Online service, how Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard affects Nintendo, and our hopes for the new Pokémon game, Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Matthew and Justin look back on 2021, the fifth year in the Nintendo Switch lifecycle. They discuss the good, bad, and ugly games that came to the Switch this year and hand out the highly coveted Nintendo Watcher Game Awards.

Nintendo Watcher Game Awards include:

Nintendo surprised everyone with a last-minute Indie World showcase to end 2021. Matthew and Justin react to the presentation, talk about the games they're looking forward to, and which games they're skipping.

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After spending 60+ hours in Shin Megami Tensei V's post-apocalyptic Tokyo, the Nintendo Watchers try to answer the age old question: Are video games too long? Matthew and Justin talk about their expectations from modern video games and how play time can (positively and negatively) impact the overall quality of the game.

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Matthew and Justin get together to discuss classic games they've only recently finished, the next five games in the backlog they're playing next, and Matthew's New Year's resolution.

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The Nintendo Watchers, Justin and Matthew, talk monster collecting in PokéMon and Shin Megami Tensei V.

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Nintendo is known for its family-friendliness, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been a few spooky games on the company’s consoles. In the spirit of spooky season, Matthew — CrocomireRock himself — and Justin discuss their favorite “scary” games to appear on Nintendo consoles.

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