{"id":4813,"date":"2017-11-09T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/soapbox_doom_is_the_most_important_switch_game_yet"},"modified":"2017-11-09T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T18:00:00","slug":"soapbox-doom-is-the-most-important-switch-game-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/09\/soapbox-doom-is-the-most-important-switch-game-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: DOOM is the Most Important Switch Game Yet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/doom\">DOOM<\/a><\/strong> is great, no doubt you&#8217;ll know that if you&#8217;ve played it or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/reviews\/nintendo-switch\/doom\">read our review<\/a>, but despite so many other incredible titles from Nintendo&#8217;s fair hand, DOOM marks something far more important than what Nintendo produces on its own systems.<\/p>\n<p>A fully-fledged, modern shooter like this was not a common sight on a Nintendo platform for many years, particularly one that was also released on the Playstation 4 and Xbox One, and so for Bethesda to make the effort to bring the game to the Switch we&#8217;re starting to see what is hopefully a new trend for the system;\u00a0<em>real<\/em> third party support.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it means that other third-party companies that have poo-pooed the Switch in the past, saying it&#8217;s simply &#8216;not powerful enough&#8217; for their games, have less of an excuse. What DOOM shows is that downgrading and optimising for the console means games like these <em>are<\/em> possible on the console.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you check out the video above to hear more on the subject, and let us know what you think about third-parties on the Switch in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] DOOM is great, no doubt you&#8217;ll know that if you&#8217;ve played it or read our review, but despite so many other incredible titles from Nintendo&#8217;s fair hand, DOOM marks something far more important than what Nintendo produces on its own systems. A fully-fledged, modern shooter like this was not a common sight on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}