Japanese PlayStation Awards demonstrate gloomy sales year

News by Brenna Hillier Contributor

Published on Dec. 4, 2012

Sony Japan's annual PlayStation Awards failed to produce a Platinum winner this year, as no PlayStation format games managed to shift the required 1 million units over a calendar year.

The awards are a double-barrelled affair, congratulating games on official shipment figures and presenting user's choice awards voted on by players.

Five PlayStation 3 games received a Gold prize this year, which goes to games which have shipped over 500,000 units, but there were no Platinum (1 million) or Double Platinum (2 million) entries.

Depressingly, the Vita didn't front a single Gold award, with Sony introducing a special category for the top five shipped games. A similar category exists for downloaded games.

In the user's choice categories, Japanese gamers had no trouble choosing ten Japanese games to be honoured, with a good mix of genres and both current platforms represented. Sadly, only three international titles got a look in, which must be disappointing for western publishers - but note that most of the recent release system titles would have missed the voting period.

Here's the full list of winners, courtesy of Siliconera.

Gold Prize