Earlier right this moment, Geoff Keighley introduced the nominations for The Game Awards 2023, together with the hotly-contested Game of the Year — the place each The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder are in rivalry.
But maybe extra spectacular is that Nintendo has secured essentially the most nominations of any writer at this yr’s awards, scooping up an impressive 15 nods. Let’s break that down a bit…
Obviously, now we have our two heavy-hitters within the GOTY class — each video games are up for 5 awards every, together with Best Art Direction and Best Game Direction. Zelda can also be up for Best Score and Music and Best Action / Adventure Game, whereas Mario is competing for Best Family Game and Best Multiplayer Game.
In phrases of different video games, Pikmin 4 has two nominations, one for Best Family Game and one for Best Sim / Strategy Game. In the latter class, Nintendo additionally has Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp and Fire Emblem Engage within the operating.
Nintendo’s final nomination would not come from a online game, however moderately a film. Yep, Illumination’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is up for Best Adaptation. It’s been a reasonably diversified yr for Nintendo, and that is mirrored within the nominations.
The final time Nintendo had two video games up for the final word GOTY award was in 2017 when Breath of the Wild (which gained the highest prize) and Super Mario Odyssey had been competing — that is a heck of a pair, as is Tears and Wonder.
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