A Twitter account that goes by @TailsChannel has been keeping track with the Player’s Choice Award votes for The Game Awards 2022. The person behind the account claims that both Sonic Frontiers and Genshin Impact are at a dead heat with 39% votes going to both. Also claimed is that the former is expected to break the tie, but considering the account handle, it’s hard to dismiss the possibility of bias in that claim.
Stray, for the first time in the round, will make a significant gain while Elden Ring falters. #SonicNews pic.twitter.com/YFFIKYczYM — Tails’ Channel · TailsChannel@mastodon.social (@TailsChannel) December 6, 2022 On come corners of the internet though, things are taken to quite the extreme, and arguably too far as well. Over on the Sonic Subreddit, mods have had to ban posts regarding the Player’s Choice Award because they have been “so repetitive and, in some cases, toxic”. On the opposite side, there are claims that miHoYo is bribing players to vote for its game by giving them premium currency. Which is the wrong flow of events, even if such claims are based on Genshin Impact winning the Best Mobile Game award at last year’s The Game Awards.
Thanks to your support, Genshin Impact has won the “Best Mobile Game” award at The Game Awards 2021. We will be giving out 1,600 Primogems from December 11 to December 14! Thank you for coming alongside us through this journey.#GenshinImpact — Genshin Impact (@GenshinImpact) December 10, 2021 If all this sounds familiar, this is because a similar thing happened during The Game Awards of 2020, when the Player’s Choice Awards was introduced for the fist time. The top two contenders were Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us Part II, with the former proving to have won the hearts of more fans ultimately. With only one more day to go, perhaps all this heated discussion will finally go away when either Sonic Frontiers of Genshin Impact wins. (Source: @TailsChannel, Reddit, miHoYo)
