Elden Ring wins its first Game of the Year award in September
The game was awarded GOTY at the Japan Game Awards held at the Tokyo Game Show.
There are those who doubt that Elden Ring is one of the best releases of this year, or even one of the most serious contenders to win an award for best game of 2022. Although we are in September, from software Now you can brag about your first grand prize during the Tokyo Game Show that’s happening right now.
Won GOTY at the Japan Game Awards.And this is, as the Japanese developer explains on his official account, excitementWon Elden Ring Award Best Game of the Year at the Japan Game Awards, the first major prize for the great RPG. Of course this won’t be the last, but for now FromSoftware is limited to thanking this recognition.
Japan Game Awards now these awards are given because of their characteristics, candidates do not wait for later titles as they come from the voting of the Japanese people published in the previous fiscal year (April 1 to March 31). After that, the jury selects ten of them for the Excellence Awards and finally the best title remaining in GOTY.
These ten candidates:
- Resident Evil Village
- Sky: Children of Light
- emergence stories
- lost judgment
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus
- Horizon: Forbidden West
- Hand Ring
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Kirby and the Forgotten Lands
Our colleague Alejandro Pascual, in his Elden Ring analysis, after more than 100 hours in the Central Lands, Hidetaka Miyazaki“In the future, we will look to Elden Ring for most of our discussions and reflections in the media,” has become “one of the biggest.” generation masterpieces“.
In fact, Elden Ring is not only critically good, but commercially, there is reason for celebration. Title exceeded sales expectations Over 16.6 million copies sold As of June 2022, and it’s only a prime candidate for achieving one of the goals Rockstar has achieved in recent years: surpassing Call of Duty’s annual sales figures in the North American market.
Source: 3D Juegos
