| firebush03 said: IMO it’s not necessarily that I perceive TGA as being “anti-Nintendo” as much as it is that TGA is overly fixated on western AAA gaming appeals. There is no reason in a year as diverse as 2025 that the big two western AAA releases (GoY, DS2) should accumulate *16 nominations*, leaving all other publishers with nothing but crumbs |
I'm personally someone who believes there is an intentional bias among voters. The same way there are "oscar baits" there are also "TGA baits" releasing every year (mostly narrative driven action-adventure games)
But... Death Stranding is a japanese game not western. Edit I also checked the nominations per publisher (by wikipedia). Sony is a bit of an oddity because they publish games from both western and eastern studios
| Nominations | Publisher |
|---|---|
| 19 | Sony Interactive Entertainment |
| 13 | Kepler Interactive |
| 10 | Electronic Arts |
| 7 | Sega |
| 6 | Supergiant Games |
| 5 | Team Cherry |
| Xbox Game Studios[e] | |
| 4 | Bethesda Softworks |
| Nintendo | |
| 3 | Capcom |
| Deep Silver | |
| Riot Games | |
| Square Enix | |
| 2 | Annapurna Interactive |
| Epic Games | |
| Hello Games | |
| Konami Digital Entertainment | |
| NetEase Games | |
| Panic | |
| Raw Fury | |
| Valve |
Last year there was plenty of asian studios nominated with a japanese game (Astrobot) winning in number of nominations and of coursing grabbing the GOTY:
| Nominations | Publisher |
|---|---|
| 15 | Sony Interactive Entertainment[e] |
| 11 | Square Enix[f] |
| 9 | Sega[g] |
| 8 | Bandai Namco Entertainment |
| 6 | Nintendo |
| 5 | Devolver Digital |
| Game Science | |
| Konami | |
| Playstack | |
| Ubisoft | |
| Xbox Game Studios[h] | |
| 4 | Activision |
| Capcom | |
| Electronic Arts | |
| 3 | 2K |
| MiHoYo | |
| 2 | 11 Bit Studios |
| Bigmode | |
| Blizzard Entertainment | |
| Epic Games | |
| Focus Entertainment | |
| Hooded Horse | |
| Kuro Games | |
| Oculus Studios | |
| Riot Games[i] | |
| Valve |
