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Metal Gear Solid 4, Crisis Core receive Gold PlayStation Awards
Those would be "Gold" awards in Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's annual PlayStation Awards, not actual gold PlayStations. No, we think excellent sales are reward enough to render the composition of a congratulatory gong irrelevant -- the Gold award only goes to those games that sold over 500,000 copies in Japan over the last year. This year's PlayStation recipients: Senior citizen stealth sim Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots; pointy-haired sword swinger Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII; and Sega's Phantasy Star Portable, which we failed to include in the headline. Similarly snubbed but given a fancy "Platinum" award was Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G, which sold over two million copies and completely messed up our Japanese hardware sales charts. Source -- PSP awards Source -- PS3 award (singular)
Sony celebrates itself with the PlayStation Awards
Who doesn't like to give themselves a pat on the back sometimes? Sure, Sony's game division might lose up to $2 billion in the first year of the PS3, but that doesn't mean it can't partay~! The PlayStation Awards were revealed two days ago, and they celebrate the best-selling Sony games from May 2005 to May 2006. In fact, these awards are base solely on sales performance in Japan. Both PS2 and PSP games are eligible for the title, and here are the winners:Double Platinum AwardFinal Fantasy XII (PS2)Platinum AwardKingdom Hearts II (PS2)World Soccer Winning Eleven 9 (PS2)World Soccer Winning Eleven 10 (PS2)Gold AwardBiohazard 4 (PS2)Monster Hunter 2 (PS2)Monster Hunter Portable (PSP)Sengoku Musou 2 (PS2)Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (PS2)Dragon Ball Sparking! (PS2)Tales of the Abyss (PS2)Dai-3-Ji Super Robot Taisen Alpha: Shuuen no Ginga e (PS2)Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 12 (PS2)Only one PSP game garnered enough sales (500,000+) to get an award from Sony. Looking at this data, I think it's clear that one thing has to be done in order to get PSP sales higher in Japan: Bring World Soccer Winning Eleven 11 (that's what the next one would be called, right?) to the PSP. Ha![Via Gamasutra]
