Earlier right this moment, Geoff Keighley introduced the nominations for The Recreation Awards 2023, together with the hotly-contested Recreation of the Yr — the place each The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise are in competition.
However maybe extra spectacular is that Nintendo has secured essentially the most nominations of any writer at this 12 months’s awards, scooping up a formidable 15 nods. Let’s break that down a bit…
Clearly, we now have our two heavy-hitters within the GOTY class — each video games are up for 5 awards every, together with Greatest Artwork Course and Greatest Recreation Course. Zelda can be up for Greatest Rating and Music and Greatest Motion / Journey Recreation, whereas Mario is competing for Greatest Household Recreation and Greatest Multiplayer Recreation.
Right here’s a have a look at the highest nominated publishers for #TheGameAwards on December 7.
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By way of different video games, Pikmin 4 has two nominations, one for Greatest Household Recreation and one for Greatest Sim / Technique Recreation. Within the latter class, Nintendo additionally has Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp and Hearth Emblem Have interaction within the operating.
Nintendo’s final nomination does not come from a online game, however reasonably a film. Yep, Illumination’s The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film is up for Greatest Adaptation. It has been a reasonably diversified 12 months for Nintendo, and that is mirrored within the nominations.
The final time Nintendo had two video games up for the last word GOTY award was in 2017 when Breath of the Wild (which gained the highest prize) and Tremendous Mario Odyssey had been competing — that is a heck of a pair, as is Tears and Surprise.
Nintendo all the time does properly within the nominations division, nevertheless it hasn’t all the time been high of the pile, which makes this 12 months’s awards notable. In 2022, Nintendo bagged 11 nominations, with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 being its most-nominated title. Then, in 2021, Nintendo managed 7 nominations, and its most-nominated recreation was Metroid Dread.
The final time Nintendo was the most-nominated writer was in 2019 when it additionally was nominated for 15 awards. Tremendous Smash Bros. Final was the massive competitor then, with Hearth Emblem: Three Homes and Hyperlink’s Awakening additionally lending a hand.
Are you proud of The Recreation Award nominations? Any Nintendo titles you suppose received snubbed? Tell us within the feedback.
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RPG lover first and Nintendo fan second, Alana is usually discovered overthinking battle methods, characters, and tales. Thankfully, she’s additionally simply happy by something Yoshi-related, creepy-but-cute Pokémon, and SEGA air pirates.
