Doom and Wolfenstein II are coming to the Nintendo Switch (update)

We already knew that Bethesda is supporting the Nintendo Switch with The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, launching in November. And now it is also launching Doom (the 2016 reboot) and Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus on Nintendo’s newest video game console.

Nintendo announced these as part of its Nintendo Direct online event today. It means that Bethesda, one of the world’s biggest video game publishers, is increasing its support for Nintendo’s popular Switch, said Pete Hines, vice president of PR and marketing at Bethesda, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.