{"id":104032,"date":"2019-11-19T18:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/super_smash_bros_ultimate_leads_nintendos_nominations_for_the_game_awards_2019"},"modified":"2019-11-19T18:40:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T18:40:00","slug":"super-smash-bros-ultimate-leads-nintendos-nominations-for-the-game-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/19\/super-smash-bros-ultimate-leads-nintendos-nominations-for-the-game-awards-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Leads Nintendo&#8217;s Nominations For The Game Awards 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d96b219b72c91\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d96b219b72c91\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"TGASmash\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d96b219b72c91\/tgasmash.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d96b219b72c91\/tgasmash.900x.jpg\" alt=\"TGASmash\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>The nominations for this year&#8217;s Game Awards, the annual show hosted and organised by Geoff Keighley, have been posted and Nintendo has a good showing with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_smash_bros_ultimate\">Super Smash Bros. Ultimate<\/a><\/strong> gaining a nomination for Game of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>One of six games to receive a nomination, the others are Remedy&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/control\" class=\"external\">Control<\/a><\/strong>, Hideo Kojima&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/death_stranding\" class=\"external\">Death Stranding<\/a><\/strong>, the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/resident_evil_2\" class=\"external\">Resident Evil 2<\/a><\/strong> remake from Capcom, From Software&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/sekiro_shadows_die_twice\" class=\"external\">Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/outer_worlds\">The Outer Worlds<\/a><\/strong> from Obsidian. Of those nominees, only the latter is Switch-bound, arriving on Nintendo&#8217;s console <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/the_outer_worlds_is_launching_on_switch_some_time_before_the_end_of_march_2020\">some time before the end of March 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The other nominations have been published on <a href=\"https:\/\/thegameawards.com\/nominees\">The Game Awards website<\/a> and Keighley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffkeighley\/status\/1196843276172554240?s=20\">tweeted<\/a> the main nominations for the coveted GOTY:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Your six nominees for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TheGameAwards?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TheGameAwards<\/a> Game of The Year are: <\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\uddf3Vote on Google: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wvTgeaULRy\">https:\/\/t.co\/wvTgeaULRy<\/a><br \/>\ud83d\uddf3Vote: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RpXwOnnigl\">https:\/\/t.co\/RpXwOnnigl<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oruH2qq2yM\">pic.twitter.com\/oruH2qq2yM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/geoffkeighley\/status\/1196843276172554240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Other categories contain a generous sprinkling of Switch games. Smash also features in the &#8216;Fighting Game&#8217; category, of course. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/astral_chain\">Astral Chain<\/a><\/strong> gets a nod in the &#8216;Action Game&#8217; category and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_links_awakening\">The Legend of Zelda: Link&#8217;s Awakening<\/a><\/strong> is nominated for the &#8216;Action \/ Adventure Game&#8217; award as well as &#8216;Art Direction&#8217;. Elsewhere the crazily addictive <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/tetris_99\">Tetris 99<\/a><\/strong> pops up with the &#8216;Multiplayer Games&#8217;, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cadence_of_hyrule_crypt_of_the_necrodancer_featuring_the_legend_of_zelda\">Cadence of Hyrule<\/a><\/strong> gets a thoroughly deserved nomination for &#8216;Score &amp; Music&#8217; while <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/fire_emblem_three_houses\">Fire Emblem: Three Houses<\/a><\/strong> has been recognised in the &#8216;Strategy&#8217; category. Try saying <em>that<\/em> five times quickly.<\/p>\n<p>There are also nominations for a bunch of indie developers who have had success on Switch and other platforms with games including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/gris\"><strong>GRIS<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/baba_is_you\">Baba Is You<\/a><\/strong> and, of course, the world-conquering <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/untitled_goose_game\">Untitled Goose Game<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one category, though, in which Nintendo <em>cannot fail<\/em> to bag a gong seeing as no other platform besides Switch has been nominated. The &#8216;Family Game&#8217; category features <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/luigis_mansion_3\">Luigi&#8217;s Mansion 3<\/a><\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ring_fit_adventure\"><strong>Ring Fit Adventure<\/strong><\/a>, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_maker_2\">Super Mario Maker 2<\/a><\/strong>, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yoshis_crafted_world\"><strong>Yoshi&#8217;s Crafted World<\/strong><\/a>. Of course, Next Level, Good-Feel, Bandai Namco and Sora had either a hand or total responsibility for the development of those respective games, but it&#8217;s an impressive feat for all games in one category to come from a single platform holder.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to argue that it hasn&#8217;t been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/11\/feature_best_nintendo_switch_games_of_2019_so_far\">a good year for Nintendo fans so far<\/a>, and we&#8217;re eager to see how the Switch games above get on at The Game Awards when the event is broadcast on 12th December. Might we get a sneaky announcement, perhaps? You can watch the entire nomination announcement below and also head to <a href=\"https:\/\/thegameawards.com\/nominees\">the Game Awards website<\/a> to sign in and start voting for your favourites (fan voting makes up <a href=\"https:\/\/thegameawards.com\/faq\">10% of the blended vote<\/a>).<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4axLHMNXzu8?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Not a bad showing for Nintendo, eh? Let us know if any of these surprise you, or if you think there&#8217;s anything missing with a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nominations for this year&#8217;s Game Awards, the annual show hosted and organised by Geoff Keighley, have been posted and Nintendo has a good showing with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate gaining a nomination for Game of the Year. One of six games to receive a nomination, the others are Remedy&#8217;s Control, Hideo Kojima&#8217;s Death Stranding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}