I have a feeling about Pokemon Switch...

Ok, it's more of a hope than a feeling.
But, I'd hope that the financial and critical success of Breath of the Wild and Odyssey light a fire under Game Freak's ass to do something similar with Pokemon and make Gen 8 truly special.

To answer the OP:
Aside from Breath of the Wild... Yeah, that's all I can think of at the moment.

Fire Emblem 2018 will most likely "modernize" that franchise. After the success of the 3DS games plus the success of the mobile game, Fire Emblem has definitely gotten more popular than it has ever been. With the Switch, I believe Fire Emblem will be huge.

This reply reminded me of Resident Evil 4. A game that modernized the franchise, but unfortunately destroyed most of its identity in the process.

Resident Evil 5 merely picked the path Resident Evil 4 had already laid out, therefore it's still Resident Evil 4's fault. On defense of Resident Evil 5, at least it tries giving some decent fanservice franchise story rather than somehow leaving the player going to rescue the US president's daughter in Spain and doing all kind of crazy things that hardly ever resembled Resident Evil at all.

The game didn't add "extreme racism". It featured one of the very first protagonists of the franchise, who happens to be white, trying to rescue his partner in Africa. There's a clash of ethnicity as a result of the geographical localization, and if these people are infected, Chris has to fight for his survival. Where's exactly the racism here?

But if that's an argument you want to use, then here's this: Resident Evil 4 is extremely racist in its misguided and inaccurate portrayal of spaniards - again, Resident Evil 4 created the foundation and the problems, not Resident Evil 5.

EDIT: and you mention an useless secondary character? Forgot about Ashley, who gets kidnapped like four times through the game and makes you endure slog sequences such as the truck driving ones?

And sure, Resident Evil 5's boulder punching is dumb as bricks, but so is RE4's deadly laser parkour sequence. Or some cultist guy running around and grabbing a giant machinegun out of nowhere if you fail to catch him in time. Or a knife-fight with a russian hunk in slow-mo fashion. Remember that part where you're standing above an entire lava river after jumping through a carousel and take down a giant lava ship coming your way? Resident Evil 4 did modernize the franchise, and at the same time broke it altogether because of said modernization. It's how it is.

I do agree that Resident Evil 7 made a second modernization.

I assume we're using this term loosely

Mario Odyssey

Breath of the Wild

Gears of War

Rayman Legends(more so than it's predecessor tbh)

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

Resident Evil 7

I think that Resident Evil 4 though, the story not really having to do much with the main plot makes it easier to accept as it means that it's harmless in the grand scheme of things. Now, I tend to view franchises more by the IP rather than by its conventions, so I would consider RE4-6 to be proper Resident Evil games, even if they do have dramatic departures from the earlier games in the franchise.

Which Gears of War?

Problem with Resident Evil 4 is that the plot directly interferes with the franchise's lore. Umbrella's end is narrated by Leon at the start, somehow them working under the shadows is implied by what's stated by Krauser during the knife-fight, and then there's Ada which you can't never tell (it's later stated - as in, the PS2 version and onwards - that she's under direct orders of Wesker, as I think the original Gamecube version never stated this anywhere) what's she is up to but ultimately she takes the Las Plagas virus strain with her. It's not that harmless despite Leon seemingly being almost unrelated to the events of RE4 themselves.

Breath of the Wild, Mario Odyssey, basically then enitre Switch lineup is looking to modernize Nintendo