 December 7th the 4th annual game awards is going to be going on it is as Jeff Keeley calls it the greatest night in gaming the yeah maybe it's not the greatest night in gaming but it's certainly a celebration of the industry and I applaud Jeff Keeley for founding this whole movement for a proper game awards ceremony to me it's only gotten better every single year and he literally put his own money on the line to make this happen years ago so I just mad props to him but we should be paying attention to the game awards now the number one reason to pay attention is because Nintendo is up for several awards I think Breath of the Wild alone is up for six awards and Nintendo has two games I'll give you a guess of what those are up for the Game of the Year award which is obviously the most prestigious of all of the awards at least for individual games obviously you could argue there's some other awards that might be more important I always find the award for gamer of the year or whatever the case may be to be very touching ever since Greg Miller won it and he actually used that as an opportunity to draw attention to the people who don't get recognition in the games industry so sometimes it's showing that kind of appreciation back to the industry and to the people who don't you know we all know the sugar on Miyamoto's we all know the A.G. Anomas but do you know the assistant sound designer on Breath of the Wild do you know you know the copious amount of the hundreds of employees that worked on that game no you don't you probably didn't even pay attention during when the credits rolled so it's just really nice to have an event like this but obviously beyond all that the biggest reason to pay attention to for people who love announcements is that Jeff Kealy has made sure that the game awards always has new something going on and based on the history of that new something Nintendo is heavily involved we know Reggie Fizeme is actually on the board for the game awards and as such Nintendo has had a heavy presence over the years Jeff Kealy is in his full on height mode now the award ceremony is now roughly three weeks and a couple days away and on Twitter he has gone on to say I wanted to keep the spotlight on the nominees in the initial conversation around the game awards but soon I'm going to be telling you more about our biggest world premiere lineup yet now we'll premiere lineup doesn't mean necessarily new games so someone asked him any world premiere trailers for games we don't know existed and he said yes definitely so we're gonna have the biggest world premiere lineup which means the widest array of games with new trailers and all that stuff going on and new announcements so you might be thinking what could Nintendo have to do with any of this well Nintendo obviously brought Breath of the Wild there in the past they've brought in other games as well Breath of the Wild is the biggest one that stands out but they've had other games be there now I don't know if they've announced a game technically at the event but this feels like a time to do it switch has a ton of momentum Nintendo is up for so many awards you might as well call this the Nintendo awards ceremony in fact let me just go over each of the categories and just tell you what's on the list because you're gonna be probably not too surprised to find out that Nintendo could sweep a large amount of these awards let's just get right into it so as we mentioned before Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are up for game of the year the competition for those two games is Player Unknown's Battlegrounds and Persona 5 and Horizon Zero Dawn now I'm gonna know before I move on that you can go vote on the winner for these there is no like I'll have a link down in the description to do that anyone can vote so have fun vote for what you want I'm very interested actually Odyssey and Zelda if one of those games don't win because Nintendo fan vote kind of gets split it'll be be very interesting moving on best game direction so you have Wolfenstein 2 Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Horizon Zero Dawn and and wait for it Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey so their Nintendo could win two of the top care categories now let's move on to best narrative this is one where Nintendo does not have a game but it's what remains of either Finch, Nier, Automata, sorry I didn't play that game so I'm not exactly sure how that's pronounced Hellblade, Senua's Sacrifice, Wolfenstein 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn so Nintendo's 2 for 3 right now and in terms of potential to win awards best art direction Destiny 2 Cuphead Cuphead that's great the Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild so another award Nintendo could win Persona 5 and Horizon Zero Dawn best score best musical score Destiny 2 Cuphead Nier Breath of the Wild Super Mario Odyssey and Persona 5 best audio design Destiny 2 Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice Resident Evil 7 Biohazard Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey best performance now this does not have a Nintendo did not make any best performances here but it has Malina Juergens from Hellblade Laura Bailey from Uncharted the Lost Legacy Claudia Black from Uncharted the Lost Legacy Brian Bloom from Wolfenstein 2 and Ashley Birch Horizon Zero Dawn games for impact this is generally going to be smaller games that were made just very heartwarming stories behind these games please knock on my door night in the woods life is strange before the storm bury my love what remains of either Finch and Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice best ongoing game this is obviously not going to include Nintendo generally but you know I mean you could argue maybe Splatoon 2 or something but the games here are Warframe Rainbow Six Siege Overwatch Grand Theft Auto Online Destiny 2 and Player Unknown Battlegrounds best mobile game Nintendo's also here with Fire Emblem Heroes Super Mario Run and then Old Man's Journey Monument Valley 2 and Hidden Folks so that brings Nintendo up to 6 out of the 10 so far for best handheld it's basically exclusively games on Nintendo platforms we have Poochie and Yoshi's World the World Monster Hunter stories Metroid Samus Returns Ever Oasis and Fire Emblem Echoes Shadows of Valencia so that's 7 out of 11 awards that Nintendo could win best VR game obviously does not have anything Nintendo it's Super Shot VR Star Trek Bridge Crew Lone Echo slash Echo Arena and Farpoint and Resident Evil 7 Biohazard best action game is Prey Neo Destiny 2 Cuphead and Wolf Sign 2 for the nominations so 7 out of geez what is that now 13 and then best action and adventure game Uncharted the Lost Legacy Assassin's Creed Origins Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild Super Mario Odyssey Horizon Zero Dawn so then you go 8 best role-playing game South Park the fractured butthole Final Fantasy 15 Divinity Originals in 2 near autumn up Persona 5 best fighting game Tekken 7 Nidhogg 2 Marvel vs Capcom Infinite Injustice 2 and Arms Nintendo up again that's 9 awards they could potentially win best family game is it's Splatoon 2 Sonic Mania Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Metal Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo themselves has a 3 out of 5 shot to win and really a 4 out of 5 shot for one of their characters to win so that's like Sonic Mania could take it but that's Nintendo's category to lose so that's 10 awards they could win best strategy game XCOM 2 War of the Chosen 2 tooth and tail total war Warhammer 2 Halo Wars 2 Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Metal it's 11 awards because that's a partner game there best sports racing game project cars to Pro Evolution Soccer NBA 2k18 GT Sport 4 some more to sport 7 and FIFA 18 best multiplayer Fortnite Call of Duty World War 2 Splatoon 2 Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Destiny 2 and Player Unknown's Battlegrounds it's 12 awards Nintendo could win most anticipated game obviously we don't have much on here for Nintendo because a lot of stuff hasn't been revealed but we got Last of Us Part 2 Red Dead Retemption 2 Monster Hunter World Marvel's Spider-Man God of War best independent game Pirate Night and Woods Cuphead what remains of either Finch and Hellbid sending with sacrifice that student game is you know again more smaller games about learning some stuff of meaning level squared impulsion falling sky hallowed in front light and trending gamer is Steven Spohn Mike Grazik I've never heard of that guy he must be an e-sport player based on his picture so Mike Zezik I don't know if the GR silent guy be all I'm really bad at pronouncing names holy crud Clint Lexa and Andrea Renee and you wonder why I pronounce Andrea Renee correct because I actually choose the only one of the list I recognize maybe that's bad on me I probably should recognize some more of those people best e-sports game is Rocket League League of Legends Dota 2 Counter-Strike Global Offensive and Overwatch best e-sports player Karoo Sadia Takahasomi Ji Hong Ryu Nikola Kovac Marcelo David and Lee Sang Hayak also knows Faker apparently that's interesting name best e-sports team is Team Liquid SK Telecom one lunatic Hive Faza or FaZe Clan and Cloud 9 and I don't watch a lot of e-sports so I don't recognize these people these teams best debut indie game Slime Rancher Mr. Shifty Cuphead and what's this golf story a Nintendo switch exclusive not Nintendo but hey if you count that in as a potential Nintendo win that's 13 best Chinese game Monument Valley 2 JX3 HD gumballs I see and King of Glory that does it for all the awards so it's golf stories a little bit more of a stretch haha Nintendo could win 12 of the awards and 13 potential exclusive titles could win awards for Nintendo this is insane to me that this I mean this is like the year of Nintendo that doesn't mean there aren't other games obviously Senya was Hellblade you know I'm sorry Senya was sacrifice that game has gotten a lot of recognition on games like Horizon Zero Dawns also up for a number of awards some of the titles you guys have seen in there too near Audema as an example is up for several Wolfenstein 2 is up for a few but Nintendo largely dominates this award ceremony so one Nintendo's not gonna win all the awards right Nintendo is not gonna go a perfect 12 for 12 or 13 for 13 when it comes to these awards they're obviously gonna win some of them there's no way in heck they're not going to win some and as they're going to win some that means Reggie's probably gonna be there potentially Miyamoto is gonna be there to accept these awards and they'll have their own speeches and yada yada yada more trophies to add to the case out at Nintendo of America if you if you ever get a chance to go to Nintendo in Redmond Washington you know if you can get one of the few rare opportunities to go on like a little tour one thing you'll notice in the lobby area is a trophy area where Nintendo is starting to really rack up some awards some North American awards by the way these aren't necessarily awards from like Tokyo Game Show or anywhere else so just really cool just really cool that this is happening and again Nintendo is gonna have some announcements I don't know what you know let me know what you think should be a game that they announced at the Game Awards I mean is it time to show a Pokemon or Metroid Metroid would be really great for this crowd you could argue it's time to show a smash or whatever you figure if Nintendo's winning all these awards Nintendo has a history of showing games at the event and the event itself is catered directly to the hardest of hardcore gamers Nintendo's got to have something there's got to be something being shown off I don't know what you guys speculate about that in the comments below maybe we'll talk about it on next week's podcast and throw out some ideas out there and why we think it's a perfect fit for game awards but that's gonna do it for today I am Nathanian Ruffle Jants from Nintendo Prime and if you like this video you know what to do and if you disliked the video that's alright hit that dislike button subscribe for more content and I will catch you in the next one