PlayStation 30th Anniversary: Winners of the 2024 PlayStation Partner Awards Japan Asia Revealed

Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) marked PlayStation’s 30th anniversary by hosting the 2024 PlayStation Partner Awards, celebrating remarkable games and developers within the Japan/Asia region.

The awards recognized both new releases and exceptional titles from past PlayStation platforms, spanning from the original PlayStation to the PS4.

Here are the winners:

Excellence Award

Awarded to titles with significant impact and commercial success over the past three years:

• Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

Grand Award

Recognizing the top three titles with the highest global sales between October 2023 and September 2024:

• Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science Interactive Technology)
• Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (Square Enix)

Partner Award

Honoring titles with exceptional worldwide sales from October 2023 to September 2024:

• Dragon’s Dogma 2 (Capcom)
• Honkai: Star Rail (HoYoverse)
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Sega)
• Persona 3 Reload (Atlus)
• Tekken 8 (Bandai Namco)
• The First Descendant (Nexon)
• Zenless Zone Zero (HoYoverse)

Special Award

Celebrating PS5 titles created outside the Japan/Asia region that achieved outstanding success in these areas:

• Rise of the Ronin (SIE / Koei Tecmo)
• Stellar Blade (SIE / Shift Up)

Users’ Choice Award

Top five titles chosen by users based on gameplay time between October 2023 and September 2024:

• Black Myth: Wukong
• Final Fantasy VII Rebirth
• Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
• Rise of the Ronin
• Stellar Blade

PlayStation Generations Awards

Celebrating the most loved games from each PlayStation generation:

• PS1 (1994 and beyond): Final Fantasy VII (Square Enix)
• PS2 (2000 and beyond): Final Fantasy X (Square Enix)
• PSP (2004 and beyond): Monster Hunter Portable 3rd (Capcom)
• PS3 (2006 and beyond): Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami)
• PS Vita (2011 and beyond): Persona 4 Golden (Atlus)
• PS4 (2013 and beyond): Elden Ring (FromSoftware / Bandai Namco)

These awards celebrate PlayStation’s incredible journey over three decades and highlight the diverse gaming talent within Japan and Asia.