At Tokyo Game Show 2022, the main winners of the Japan Game Awards were chosen. Pokemon was probably the show’s biggest winner, at least as far as Nintendo games go.
Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl won awards for both Best Sales and a Global Award category. Kirby and the Forgotten Land and Pokemon Legends: Arceus were both chosen for the Award for Excellence.
2022 Japan Game Award winners
- Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award
- Hidetaka Miyazaki (FromSoftware)
- Global Award Japanese Product
- Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Pokemon Shining Pearl
- Global Award Foreign Product
- Call of Duty: Vanguard
- Best Sales Award
- Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Pokemon Shining Pearl
- Game Designers Award
- Inscryption
- Award for Excellence
- Resident Evil Village
- Sky: Children of the Light
- Tales of Arise
- Lost Judgment
- Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker
- Pokemon Legends: Arceus
- Horizon Forbidden WestÂ
- Elden Ring
- Ghostwire: Tokyo
- Kirby and the Forgotten Land
- Grand Award
- Elden Ring.
