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Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Takes the Cake at the Japan Game Awards
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
The winners of this year's Japan Game Awards were announced at Tokyo Game Show at Makuhari Messe in Chiba prefecture on September 12. The awards honor the hottest games of year in multiple categories. This year's winner across the board was Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the Nintendo Switch with five total awards.
The cross-franchise fighting game took home the Minister of Economy, Trade, and Industry Award, the Global Award: Japan, the Best Sales Award, Outstanding Performance Award, and the Grand Prize.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is Nintendo's fastest selling Switch game in the United States and was the best pre-selling game for the Switch and the Super Smash Bros. series. The game features a wide array of popular video game characters with new fighters added regularly. Nintendo recently announced plans to add Fatal Fury's Terry Bogard, title characters from Rare's Banjo-Kazooie game series, the protagonist character from Person 5 and more.
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was chosen as Famitsu's Game of the Year in April.
The Japan Game Awards also acknowledged the Nintendo Labo sets in its Special Prize category. Nintendo's Toy-Con cardboard kits for the Nintendo Switch come in four varieties packed to the brim with creativity. They encourage gamers young and old to design their own interactive kits from giant robot packs to musical instruments.
Sony Entertainment's PlayStation virtual reality game Astro Bot Rescue Mission received the Game Designers Award. The platformer launched in October 2018 and lets players take control of a robot named ASTRO to "go on an epic VR rescue mission to save your fellow crew who are dispersed all over space."
The Japan Game Awards also acknowledged Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 for the Global Award: Overseas category. The following games received the Outstanding Performance Award alongside Super Smash Bros. Ultimate:
- Megid 72
- Detroit: Become Human
- Marvel's Spider-Man
- Judgment
- Dragon Quest Builders 2
- Kingdom Hearts III
- Resident Evil 2
- Apex Legends
- Devil May Cry 5
- Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
All the games considered were released in Japan between April 1, 2018 and March 31, 2019.
Source: Famitsu
