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Azzanation on 13 March 2020
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Azzanation said:
src said:

Your notion of importance is completely subjective. A french enthusiast will find jeuxvideo more important than gamespot. It's also completely irrelevant as GOTYpicks is an aggregate of all awards.

If a game was only critically acclaimed in one area or fan segment it would not be able to get the most awards. UC4 got 63 more awards than OW. Sorry if reality differs from your I misread, seems the estimate only includes sales.

PS revenue FY 2017 - $17.53 billion

Steam revenue estimate FY 2017 - $4.3 billion 

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us">https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qjG_oXQrLMUJ:https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-03-23-valves-generates-record-breaking-usd4-3bn-from-sales-revenue-in-2017+&cd=14&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

There is little Valve can have to make up for another $13 billion though. 

Okay but PS1/2 had far more exclusives and a lot bigger exclusives from third parties. 

No where did i say UC4 didnt win more awards. What i am telling you is majority of the popular opinion of GOTY awards went to Overwatch. I could care less if some unknown french reporter decides to give UC4 GOTY however i would pay more attention to outlets like IGN, Gamespot, Polygon and even the Game Awards as there opinion holds up stronger than some Joebob1380 GOTY winner. 

Take that as you wish. I could care less about GOTY Awards however lets not act like the main outlets mean little compared to the smaller ones. The gaming industry can be incredibly bias and base there opinions on popular views rather than what is deserving. Its why i never follow the heard because its a mess.

Also if Steam charged their customers $60 a year to play there games online than that gap reduces immensely.