Nintendo news with group-chat velocity.
Super Switch Headz tracks Nintendo culture with the energy of a crowded group chat. Episodes move from Switch 2 features and Mario movie spoilers to Android handhelds, Pokemon, trivia, and oddly serious debates about fire in games.
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Super Switch Headz is a Nintendo podcast with the messy momentum of a real gaming friend group. It has structure, but not stiffness. Episodes usually make room for news, rumors, community notes, and a main topic that can swing from extremely current to charmingly specific. Switch 2 boost mode becomes a conversation about whether Nintendo pays attention to fan noise. AYN Thor opens the door to Android handhelds, ARM-based devices, emulation, and the strange future of portable gaming. Pokemon Pokopia gets treated with surprise and genuine curiosity after low expectations. Mario Tennis Fever leads into Virtual Boy compatibility, Labo-era VR, and the practical discomfort of trying to play Breath of the Wild that way. The show can also zoom way out. Video game movies become a discussion of Hollywood's new IP rush, Xbox leadership changes, and industry anxiety around AI. Then it can turn right back around and devote an episode to fire in video games, treating lava like a beloved problem child of level design. That range is the appeal. Super Switch Headz can be goofy without being empty. It can be skeptical without acting above the fandom. The conversations are full of quick pivots, callbacks, guest chemistry, and direct community energy. Spoiler episodes do what they say, especially around the Super Mario Galaxy movie and its Star Fox material. Special episodes break the usual format too, including competitive Nintendo trivia with buzz-ins, steals, and enough teasing to make the stakes feel personal. The show works best for listeners who already know the names, platforms, and franchises being tossed around, but it does not require a museum-level Nintendo education. It explains enough to keep the room open. It also has a sharper edge than a sanitized brand-friendly recap show. The result is a scrappy, funny, deeply online Nintendo conversation that still remembers to care about the games.
Made for: For Nintendo fans who follow Switch hardware, Mario, Pokemon, industry drama, adaptations, and niche gaming history, and who prefer lively conversation over polished recap. It especially suits listeners who enjoy guests, tangents, and opinionated fandom talk.
What sets it apart: Super Switch Headz stands out by treating Nintendo coverage as a recurring social space, not just a headlines desk. Its mix of news, community prompts, themed deep dives, trivia, movie spoilers, and handheld hardware talk gives it a broader rhythm than a standard weekly update show.
Super Switch Headz brings you the latest Nintendo news, rumors, speculation, and hype! In every episode your hosts David Howe, Patrick Knisely, Matthew Stoner, and special guests discuss and explore the world of Nintendo. We are the official podcast of the Switch Headz (DISCORD and Facebook) groups.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Super Switch Headz pairs Nintendo news with playful, example-rich discussions of games, hardware, movies, and the design ideas connecting them.
Super Switch Headz turns Nintendo coverage into an energetic roundtable, with David Howe, Jordan Willis, Patrick Knisley, and recurring guests moving between current news and a focused main discussion.
Switch 2 boost mode arrives, and your complaint department has to update its files.
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A lively, lightly critical look at how fire, especially lava, became one of games' default hazards.
Fire is everywhere in games, and Super Switch Heads finds a clean way into that familiar subject by looking at how often it returns as a hazard, especially as lava.
A funny, fan-led unpacking of Fox McCloud's Super Mario Galaxy movie reveal.
Super Switch Heads frames the Super Mario Galaxy movie's Fox McCloud reveal as a lively Nintendo conversation, with David Howe and guest Danny Goodwin moving from the split critical response and their noisy theater experiences into spoiler territory.
A lively Nintendo fandom debate about whether loud online complaints are reaching the company.
Super Switch Heads frames a small Switch 2 feature as a larger test of how Nintendo listens to its audience. Episode 346 begins with boost mode, a handheld option tied to Switch 1 games playing back in docked mode on Switch 2, then broadens into the Furukawa era and the question…
A busy Nintendo-news roundtable uses the video game adaptation rush as a springboard into AI-era industry anxiety.
Super Switch Heads treats video game movies and TV adaptations as the week's big IP rush, then folds that theme into a packed run of game news.
Mario Tennis Fever anchors a loose Nintendo catch-up with a pointed Virtual Boy detour on HUD issues, VR cameras, and nausea.
Super Switch Heads centers on Mario Tennis Fever, with David Howe joined by Daniel Alba from GVG after both spent the weekend with the newest Switch 2 exclusive. The episode is not boxed into one verdict, though.
Super Switch Heads returns with an easy, animated case for Pokemon Pocopia.
Super Switch Heads centers this single-episode return on Pokemon Pocopia, a game David Howe admits he was unsure they would cover before finding himself happy to be wrong.
A Nintendo trivia rematch turns brain fog, friendly pressure, and stray closet relics into easygoing podcast fun.
David Howe is back after winning Super Switch Heads' 2022 trivia episode, this time facing Summer Rain in a rematch hosted by Jordan Willis. He jokes that COVID-related brain fog may dull his Nintendo recall, while the episode keeps raising the stakes with a running bit about…
The hosts of Super Switch Headz, David Howe and Jordan Willis, are joined by guest Sarah XCIII to discuss Nintendo news and Pokémon Pokopia.
Hosts David Howe and Summer Rain compete in a Nintendo trivia battle with 30 questions, where the loser must quit the podcast.
A Nintendo podcast discusses Xbox's potential shift away from exclusivity with guest Rob from Rule of Two Review.
A Nintendo podcast episode featuring an interview with game developer Patrick Knisley about his new game Monochrome Heights, along with discussion of recent gaming news.
In this special trivia episode of Super Switch Heads, undefeated champion David faces challenger Jordan in a Nintendo knowledge showdown.
A Nintendo podcast interviews Remy Siu, developer of 1000xResist, discussing the game and recent gaming news.
Super Switch Heads episode 349 returns to the Elements series with fire in video games, and the hosts connect that topic to lava, hazards, and game design across genres.
Super Switch Heads episode 348 brings Danny Goodwin into spoiler talk on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, after David Howe describes a theater full of children, a birthday party, and a 69-year-old dad who got the Star Fox references.
Super Switch Heads episode 346 centers on Nintendo's Switch 2 boost mode, which lets Switch 1 games use docked settings in handheld mode.
A Nintendo podcast episode discussing the AYN Thor Android handheld and the future of ARM-based handhelds, along with recent gaming news.
The hosts of Super Switch Heads discuss the surprisingly good reception of Pokemon Pokopia with guest Sarah XCIII, along with recent Nintendo news and rumors.
On episode 343 of Super Switch Heads, hosts Jordan Willis and David Howe welcome back guest Hans Gauger to discuss video game movie and TV adaptations before covering a dense week of gaming news.
On episode 342 of Super Switch Heads, host David Howe and returning guest Daniel Alba of GVG cover a wide slate of Nintendo and gaming-industry news before their planned discussion of Mario Tennis Fever.
A special trivia episode of the Super Switch Heads podcast where David and Summer compete in a Nintendo-themed quiz.