Here's the problem with the VGAs.
Or rather, one of the many problems.
So I took a look at the nominees a week or so ago for the VGAs. Get to Best Handheld Game.
4 nominees, 3 of which are Vita games. The sole 3DS game is New Super Mario Bros. 2.
Where's Kid Icarus: Uprising? Kingdom Hearts 3D? Theatrhythm? As much fun as I've had with NSMB2, there are other 3DS games more deserving of an award than NSMB2, which to me shows they only put it there out of courtesy. And the fact that the other 3 games were Vita games? Out of how many games for the Vita? I mean, the system is slowly building up a library, but it's still quite small.
If this was truly an awards show, the nominations should be unbiased, not just tossing in a Mario game to make it look as if they're giving everything a fair chance.
Here's the other thing that bugged me: For Best Original Song, the only one that was made FOR the game itself was the Journey nomination. I'll admit that I like Linkin Park, but Castle of Glass should NOT have been a nominee since it was NOT created for the game in question specifically, but instead came out on Living Things which released earlier this year.
Best Original Song should only be for songs that were created SPECIFICALLY for the games and not just licensed out from some album.
We should just make our own VGAs, one that is more fair to everything, that is actually about the games and not just celebrities. One where the people in the industry get the recognition they deserve, regardless if they're Western developers or not (whereas the VGAs seem to focus on the Western side of things whilst ignoring everything else).