A few days ago, the 2019 Game Awards came and went, and Nintendo had a few things to announce, but what many wondered was whether Super Smash Bros Ultimate would get the coveted Game of the Year Award. Sadly, it didn’t, but it did get Best Fighting game. Nintendo fans shouldn’t be too sad though, because it was just two years ago that Breath of the Wild won GOTY.
Host Geoff Keighley has been reminiscing about The Game Awards over the last week or so, and he noted that when Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma and Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi went onto the stage to get the award for Breath of the Wild, he could tell that it really meant something to them:
“That was a real landmark for me, personally, to see all the top guys from Nintendo in the front row and see [game director Eiji] Aonuma get up onstage and how much that award meant to him.”
If that wasn’t enough, apparently after The Game Awards 2017, Aonuma reached out to Keighley for something. What? The measurements of the award, he was going to make sure he had the perfect place for it on his desk.
“It really meant so much to me to see the award, only a few years old at that point, had so much weight to it.”
