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Re:Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console by jsnell on Friday March 17, 2017 @07:53AM (#13893247)
Luckily, there are people who aggregate this kind of stuff. I don't think the data supports your claims at all. Witcher 3 won an extremely high proportion of the awards in its year. Almost double what the three other 2015 games you list got combined if you look at awards from critics, and even more lopsided if you looked at fan awards.

https://gotypicks.blogspot.com/2015/09/2015-game-of-year.htm...

(And really, a suggestion of Dark Souls II as some kind of awards powerhouse is totally detached from any reality).

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Re:Nintendo to Double Production of Switch Console by iEchoic on Friday March 17, 2017 @08:09AM (#13893327)
> I don't think the data supports your claims at all.

I'm going off of Wikipedia's GotY list, which includes only more notable publications. That lists adds in a ton of small gaming blogs and regional user's choice awards, which I don't think gives you better data. In Wikipedia's list, TW3 is winning, but a little less drastically.

I think you're attacking a claim I'm not making, and we're not even disagreeing, though. I didn't claim TW3 was worse than other contenders in 2015, I said it's one of a few solid games that come out every year. Everything you're saying and everything I'm saying supports that.

Edit: GotY is a decent signal, but discussions about which videogames are better are always going to be highly subjective. The Walking Dead won in 2012 and most people don't consider TWD to be on the same level as a lot of the other GotY games.

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