d21lewis on 17 January 2011
That ain't necessarily so. A lot of publications actually disqualify the GOTY from winning any other award except game of the year. Others like EGM and Game Informer don't just automatically give everything to the Game of the Year. Red Dead won game of the year and best ending but didn't win in tons of other categories that it was qualified for. Sometimes the GOTY does everything better than everything else (Uncharted 2 for example). Sometimes it's just more than the sum of its parts (GTA: San Andreas for example).
