2017’s biggest Sony sellers
Last night, Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan held the PlayStation Awards 2017, an event to honour 2017’s biggest-selling games in the Japan and Asia territories. These awards are directly linked to actual product sales, rather than any sort of critique or panel-based judging.
A lot of the year’s best titles walked away with prizes, including NieR: Automata, Horizon Zero Dawn, Uncharted, Yakuza and Resident Evil 7. Awards are given to games based on milestone sales met or, in some cases, for “special contributions” to the PlayStation platform.
The award-winning games are listed below. A video of the ceremony, complete with English narration, can be watched right here.
Double Platinum Prize:
(Games that have accumulated shipments of over two million copies.)
- Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition / Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition / Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition (Mojang / SIE)
Platinum Prize:
(Games that have accumulated shipments of over one million copies.)
- Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Orca / Square Enix)
- Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix)
- Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games)
Gold Prize:
(Games that have accumulated shipments of over 500,000 copies.)
- Battlefield 1 (DICE / Electronic Arts)
- Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (Infinity Ward / Activision / SIE)
- FIFA 2017 (EA Canada / Electronic Arts)
- FIFA 2018 (EA Canada / Electronic Arts)
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / SIE)
- NieR: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)
- Nioh (Team Ninja / Koei Tecmo)
- Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
- Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (Capcom)
- Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection (Naughty Dog / SIE)
- Yakuza 6: The Song of Life (Ryu ga Gotoku Studio / Sega Games)
PlayStation Network Award:
(Best selling titles on the PlayStation Network, released between October 1, 2016 and September 30, 2017.)
- FIFA 2017 (EA Canada / Electronic Arts)
- Phantasy Star Online 2 (Sega Games)
- Rainbow Six: Siege (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft)
Users Choice Prize:
(This was the only award given to a public vote, as chosen by Asia’s PlayStation community.)
- Battlefield 1 (DICE / Electronic Arts)
- Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age (Orca / Square Enix)
- Final Fantasy XV (Square Enix)
- Horizon: Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games / SIE)
- NieR: Automata (Platinum Games / Square Enix)
- Nioh (Team Ninja / Koei Tecmo)
- Persona 5 (Atlus)
- Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom)
- Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Naughty Dog / SIE)
- Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (Falcom)
PlayStation VR Special Award:
(Games considered notable for their contribution to the PSVR platform.)
- Far Point (Impulse Gear / SIE)
- Resident Evil 7: biohazard (Capcom)
- Summer Lesson: Allison Snow (Bandai Namco Entertainment)
Indie & Developer Award:
(Games considered notable for the contribution to the PlayStation’s indie catalogue.)
- 3on3 FreeStyle (Joycity Games)
- Touhou Genso Wanderer: Reloaded (Aqua Style)
- Undertale (Toby Fox)
