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As the list of nominees for The Game Awards 2025 was announced, an interesting statistic caught the eye: Xbox exclusives were absent from the Game of the Year category for the fifteenth consecutive year. Since 2010, no Xbox-exclusive title has managed to break into the most prestigious nominations in the gaming industry, with PlayStation owning a total of 15 nominations in the Game of the Year category.
According to data published by Nick Marseil on X, from 2013 to 2025, PlayStation has a total of 15 nominations in the Game of the Year category, while Nintendo received 12 nominations during the same period, while Xbox’s tally remained completely devoid of nominations.
The last time Xbox exclusives were nominated for Game of the Year at the Spike Video Game Awards was in 2010, when Halo: Reach and Mass Effect 2 were both nominated, but neither won.
Analysts suggest that several factors contributed to this absence, most notably Xbox’s focus in recent years on services like Game Pass rather than major exclusives, the low number of big AAA games released exclusively for the platform, and the move by some Xbox studios to develop multi-platform games.
However, Microsoft emphasizes through statements by Xbox officials that the next generation will see major changes in terms of strategy and exclusives.
