@mesoteto

Honestly claiming there is a bias only highlights your own bias. There is a rather simple explanation beyond bias. Last year first person shooters were living up to a higher quality then their counterparts in other genres. Thats not necessarily the case every year.

Two of the previous four years it has been God of War, and Prince of Persia that took home top honors. In years prior to that here are some titles that were not first person shooters that took home top honors. The Sims, Diablo II, and Zelda the Ocarina of Time. Strange that isn't it?

Having reviewed all the previous years awards. I can adamantly say I see no bias at play, and tastes haven't shown any sign of swinging. When first person shooters are the best a particular year they get the nod. When some other game in some other genre is the best it gets the nod. Snide remarks of contempt aren't proof. I highly recommend you take some time to research a particular awards ceremony. Before you berate them for a perceived bias.

Why does he deserve it? Not like Sony got to where they are with smart management and creative ideas. They bullied their way in to the console market and pushed everyone around since they had the biggest wallet. The whole "losing money" on a console was started by Sony and has made impossible for smaller (most likely more creative) companies to compete.

Thats until someone came along just as big and started pushing back. He doesn't look so hot since...

COD4 winning Overall GOTY? Terrible. Especially when the best version of COD4(PC) got trounced by the Orange box for best PC GOTY... doesn't make sense.

Mario Galaxy winning Adventure of the year? Double terrible. Don't even need to mention why

C&C3 winning Strategy of the year? Triple terrible. World in Conflict is vastly superior to C&C3

 You have no idea what your talking about. Sony was brought into the console market thanks to Nintendo so blame Nintendo for Sony being #1 for 2 generations. 

 Ken received the award because he successfully expanded the game industry to the massive industry it is today.  

CoD4 on the consoles is a busted shitty game, it remains un-patched(properly) and broken. The orange box is not very good either, its just another average FPS game.

@dod--are you really going to try and tell me we americans dont favor or FPS

 Americans favor console FPSs, the EU favors PC FPSs.

^agreed---dont get me wrong we might pop out an action/shooter but FPS seems to be what we like

Everyone knows the Sony/Nintendo saga which was unfortunate for both parties as that could have been a legendary partnership.

Yes Sony did expand the industry greatly...but so did Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys when it comes to music industry. You don't see them getting awards for their achievements. The videogames pie has gotten bigger for sure but it doesn't taste any better in my opinion.

All I'm saying is that if Nintendo didn't come up with the brilliant idea that is the Wii they'd probably be gone software side like Sega, mainly thanks to the arms race started by Sony and Ken who still believes 8 CPU's on a processor means better console.

 What the hell about CoD4 on consoles is exactly so busted? I've played both the 360 and PS3 versions and neither of them show any signs of being broken.

And if you ever... EVER call a Half-Life game average again, I'll cyber-slap you so hard that I'll break all of your bones in two different dimensions.