Sony Interactive Entertainment has announced the winners of the PlayStation Partner Awards 2024 Japan Asia. While the company has also opened worldwide polls for the PS Blog Game of the Year Awards 2024, this award presentation particularly continued the yearly tradition established by Sony Computer Entertainment Japan, which would also later expand to the rest of Asia.
One of the awards featured in this presentation is the Users’ Choice Award, where Japanese and Asian PlayStation Network account owners voted for their favorite titles released on PlayStation platforms between October 2023 and September 2024. Five games won the award:
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Rise of the Ronin
- Stellar Blade
As announced previously in October 2024, this year’s edition featured additional PlayStation Generations Awards where users would vote for their most favorite titles from each of the PlayStation consoles released before the PS5 that had also won in previous PlayStation Partner Awards.
- PlayStation Generations Award: Final Fantasy VII
- PlayStation 2 Generations Award: Final Fantasy X
- PlayStation Portable Generations Award: Monster Hunter Portable 3rd
- PlayStation 3 Generations Award: Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
- PlayStation Vita Generations Award: Persona 4 Golden
- PlayStation 4 Generations Award: Elden Ring
In the same presentation, Sony Interactive Entertainment also gave awards to games based on sales performances on the PlayStation platforms between October 2023 and September 2024. One of which is the Special Award, which it gave to the following two titles for recording success while being developed by a third-party Japanese or Asian studio and published by SIE:
- Stellar Blade (developed by Shift Up)
- Rise of the Ronin (developed by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja)
The company also handed over Partner Awards to seven PlayStation games with notable worldwide sales performances during the same period:
- Dragon’s Dogma 2
- Honkai: Star Rail
- Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
- Persona 3 Reload
- Tekken 8
- The First Descendant
- Zenless Zone Zero
In addition, it gave Grand Awards to the top three titles with the highest worldwide sales:
- Black Myth: Wukong
- Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
- Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
In the 2024 edition, Sony also added an Excellence Award for a game with a consistently significant impact for three straight years. It gave the award to HoYoverse’s Genshin Impact, which has been available on the PS4 and PS5 among other platforms. A more recent PS5 bundle featuring the same game also appeared in Japan in July 2024.
Published: Dec 3, 2024 09:00 am