Phantom Thief said: I mean, if breakout hits are what determine GotY, then stuff like Wii Sports or Angry Birds should have won in their respective years. Game of the Year are not popularity polls, they are about attempting to recognize the best the medium has accomplished in its given year. PUBG is probably really good, but by all accounts, it seems it is not as good as the other games this year that did dominate GotY ballots.

Also, Minecraft didn't become the breakout hit that it did until late 2012, in 2011 it had a small cult following at best. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Wii Sports absolutely deserved GOTY. It basically carried a whole console and was a great game. The fact that it was passed over by so many places was stupid. Angry Birds isn't comparable at all. That's a mobile game. Minecraft sold to everyone on PC and consoles. And GOTYs are absolutely glorified popularity polls as it stands.We're going way off-topic now anyway, so I'm going to drop this. But this being ignored as just as ridiculous as Minecraft from a few years ago. When something breaks out like this, it deserves some recognition, because it's doing something very right.