10. Doom 2016
One of the more surprising details from the announcement of the Switch was the support of developer Bethesda Softworks, including the possibility of Skyrim: Special Edition being playable on the console in the future. Now, Skyrim is fantastic, but the gameplay itself is about 5 years old. The new Doom, on the other hand, is a new title and one of the year’s biggest surprises. Doom has existed on Nintendo consoles in the past and Nintendo has relaxed a lot of its expectations in terms of religious content in games on its consoles recently, making this a solid click. Additionally, this would be a solid olive branch to fans of the first-person shooting genre. It may seem like locking down the newest Call of Duty might do that better; except that actually did happen for the Wii U and Black Ops II, with little success. Fans of those types of games are not going to ditch their Xbox or PlayStation at this point for one of those, but Doom can still find an audience with both a solid campaign and no sequel expected in the next 11 months. Besides, a game with Doom levels of action would help drag Nintendo out of its unjust but still believed identity as a company for “kids and casuals.”
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