PlayStation® Awards 2016 Results Announcement, Together with the PlayStation®Store Campaign

 Singapore, 13th December, 2016 – Sony Interactive Entertainment Japan Asia*1(SIEJA) held the “PlayStation® Awards 2016” ceremony on 13th December to award PlayStation® software titles that have had a great performance in Japan and other Asian regions.

Since 1994, the year when PlayStation® was launched, “PlayStation® Awards” has been held every year and more than 320 titles have been awarded.

To honor game creators for their efforts, titles that have accumulatively shipped and downloaded more than 500,000 copies were awarded the “Gold Prize”*2, and 3 titles that had the best sales through PlayStation™Network awarded “PlayStation™Network Award” *3 and “Users’ Choice Awards”*4 were awarded to the 10 titles that got the highest numbers of votes from users.

This year, “PlayStation®VR Special Award” *5 and “Indie Special Award” *6 were added in addition to the above awards. “PlayStation®VR Special Award” was awarded to the 5 titles that contributed a lot to the launch of PlayStation®VR in both Asia and Japan regions.  “Indie Special Award” was awarded to the 5 indie titles which contributed to PlayStation® title lineups.

Together with the “PlayStation® Awards 2016”, starting from 14th December, 2016 (Wednesday), PlayStation®Awards 2016 winning titles campaigns will be held on PlayStation®Store (PS Store). In Hong Kong and Southeast Asia region, a special page will be set up on PS Store to introduce the winning titles. What’s more, customers who download the winning titles between 13th December and 19th December will receive PlayStation™Network Prepaid Value as rebate.*7

The awarded titles are as follows:

★Gold Prize

500,000 yen as a supplementary prize

Awarded Titles: Titles with over 500,000 accumulative shipment and download number

★PlayStation™Network Award

500,000 yen as a supplementary prize

Awarded Titles: The 3 titles with the most online sales (From 1st October, 2015 to 30th September, 2016)

★Users’ Choice Awards

※1  A division company of Sony Computer Entertainment that is responsible for the business in Japan and other Asia regions.

※2  For titles that were released on multiple PlayStation® platforms within Japan and other Asian regions, numbers of different platform versions were combined. Counted regional versions and platform versions include versions that were released on or after 1st October, 2015 and versions that were released within half year from the release date of the earliest version.

※3  The 3 titles with the most online sales from 1st October, 2015 to 30th September, 2016 are awarded.

※4  All titles on any PlayStation® platforms that were released between 1st October, 2015 and 30th September, 2015  were open to be voted by users. Votes of different platform versions of the same software were combined.

※5  The 5 titles contributed a lot to the launch of PlayStation®VR in both Asia and Japan regions as of 13th October, 2016

※6　The 5 indie titles which contributed to PlayStation® title lineups which has been released between 1st October , 2015 to 30th September, 2016.

※7 The content and period of campaigns may differ between regions.

※8 PlayStation®4

※9 PlayStation®3

※10 PlayStation®Vita

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