Why out of the past 10 years has only a Sony exclusive been able to achieve GOTY? And why has Sony been able to achieve this feat twice (Uncharted 2 and The Last of Us)?

Is it just the power of Naughty Dog or is it something else?

For reference, here are the past 10 game of the year winners:

2013: The Last of Us (so far)
2012: The Walking Dead
2011: Elder Scrolls: Skyrim
2010: Red Dead Redemption
2009: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
2008: Fallout 3
2007: Bioshock
2006: Elder Scrolls: Oblivion
2005: Resident Evil 4
2004: Half Life 2
2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

Why has this happened?

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Because Sony is the superior company.

Cause they're ****.

I am just wondering why Naughty Dog has been able to win with platform exclusives while the others cannot?

They can't take their power I guess.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British...o_Games_Awards

MARIO GALAXY won the BAFTA avvard for GOTY , which is like gaming equivalent to wining an AOTY grammy or movie of the year Oscar. No one cares about aggregates of review sites.

Also, Eurogamer named it the GAME OF THE GENERATION; more publications probably vvill follovv suit once their lists are published.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...r-mario-galaxy

In your opinion. Bioshock won more, therefore it is the GOTY. Mario lost.

Halo has outsold any Sony exclusive so who cares

Because those games appealed to the masses more. Why else?

Welp. The one, two punch from Nintendo and Xbox fans. Sony fans act as though Nintendo and Xbox never had first party acclaim or sales

So I guess the only answer is Naughty Dog, its power. Not surprising.

They make good games. Not surprising indeed

Why does every thread about a game system reported? Is it that serious?

You know damn well Mario Galaxy was barely behind like for 2-3 publications. Let's not forget that most of those publications are from western media, not taking into account Japanese media.

Also, resident evil 4 was a GameCube exclusive for over 10 months, so most of the reviewers giving it the GOTY award where referring to the GC version. So that makes TWO GAMES for Nintendo platforms.

Nintendo, its powah.

Also true and not surprising. Nintendo has classics.

like the thread shouldn't have even gone past this comment

Ddddd