Because it is an actual award given by an academy of scholars and not a fictional award out of an accumulation of reviews made by gaming "journalists" that get paid depending on the score given?

Yes, I bet that Amazon.com was paid to say this...

- Amazon.com

Millions of people have viewed the GOTY awards handed out by huge publications, it matters more than some unknown award that no one knows. Sorry. I would expect you to try and disqualify all these awards as that is the only option anyone has when they are clearly losing. Either try to discredit the source or lose. I see why you chose the former, but sis...

No GOTY awards? Correct, unless they start putting some effort into their games.

"Hurr durr so Nintendo has no goty award I guess durr"

This is how you always end this kind of threads after everyone drags you to the pits

No one has been dragged except Nintendo for making sub-par games for 10 years.

At least they have those sales though.

This is just factually wrong. There is no single definitive Game of The Year. Polygon, IGN, GiantBomb, Spike and each publication picks their own.

EDIT: MTV is doing something a la metacritic where they come up with some nominal percentage to combine the different GoTY choices.

Read that sentence right under "A Telltale Games Series" out loud please.