Sony's Had a First-Party PS5, PS4 Game Nominated for Game of the Year Ten Times in a Row

Sony has had a first-party Game of the Year nomination at The Game Awards ten years in a row. In fact, the streak would be even longer if 2014 hadn’t been such a lean year for the industry as a whole. Here are the titles that have been nominated: We suppose some pedantic readers may argue Bloodborne and Death Stranding are not first-party games, as Sony doesn’t own the developers that made them.

While this is technically true, platform holders generally consider the titles they publish to be first-party. In the case of Bloodborne, the Japanese giant still wholly owns the FromSoftware favourite. Death Stranding was later ported to PC and, earlier this year , Xbox Series X|S – and its rights have reverted to Kojima Productions.



Nevertheless, at the time of its nomination in 2019, it was very much considered a first-party title..