The title has been awarded GOTY at the Japan Game Awards, which take place at the Tokyo Game Show.
Few doubt that Elden Ring is one of the great releases of this year, and even one of the most serious candidates to rise with awards for best game of 2022. Although it is only September, the title by FromSoftware can already boast of its first major award, given during the Tokyo Game Show that is taking place right now.
It has won the GOTY at the Japan Game Awards.And, as announced by the Japanese developer itself in its official account of TwitterElden Ring has won the award to Best Game of the Year at the Japan Game Awardswhich is the first major award for the huge RPG. It will probably not be the last, although, for the moment, FromSoftware is only grateful for this recognition.
The Japan Game Awards are now given out due to the particularities of these awards.which do not wait for subsequent titles as the nominees come from a Japanese public vote of titles released in the previous fiscal year (April 1 to March 31). After this, the panel of judges chooses ten for the Awards of Excellence and, finally, the best title of all that gets the GOTY.
These were the ten nominees:
In his review of Elden Ring, our colleague Alejandro Pascual made it clear that, after more than 100 hours in the Midlands of the last great work by Hidetaka MiyazakiIn the future we will look to Elden Ring in many of our discussions and reflections on the medium”, having become since its release “one of the great masterpieces of the generation“.
In fact, Elden Ring is not only performing well critically, but in commercial terms there is also cause for celebration. The title has surpassed sales expectations with more than 16.6 million copies sold. as of June 2022, and is the leading candidate to achieve one of the goals that only Rockstar releases have achieved in recent years: beating Call of Duty’s annual sales figures in the North American market.
