Kingdom Hearts has placed in the PlayStation 20th Anniversary Users' Choice Awards top 20. Unfortunately, it did not win the award. However Kingdom Hearts' co-producer Yoshinori Kitase was in attendance and claimed the Users' Choice Awards for a game he directed in Final Fantasy VII for the PlayStation and produced in Final Fantasy X for the PlayStation 2 which also claimed a PlayStation Gold Prize for selling over 500,000 copies in Japan for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita. Tetsuya Nomura, director of the Kingdom Hearts series served as the main character designer for both games.