PlayStation Celebrates Its Partners Throughout Its 30 Years As Part Of 30th Anniversary Celebrations With Partner Awards

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If you hadn’t heard, today is PlayStation’s birthday. The platform has officially turned 30, and has been celebrating in big and small ways since just before the launch of Astro Bot this past September.

As part of its birthday celebrations for the actual day, Sony decided to invite all its friends (business partners) and celebrate them, and their contributions to PlayStation over the years.

“Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) hosted the 2024 PlayStation Partner Awards in Japan Asia (hereafter PlayStation Partner Awards), honoring all the incredible games and talented developers who released their games on PlayStation within the Japan/Asia region,” reads a post on the PlayStation Blog about the awards.

Most of the categories save for the PlayStation’s Generations Awards are all for studios and the games they’ve released between October 2023 and now.

You can check out the full list of categories and winners for yourself, below.

PlayStation Partner Awards Winners

Excellence Award

“Awarded to the title developed in the Japan/Asia region that have had a consistent and significant impact along with commercial success over the past three years”

Genshin Impact (HoYoverse)

Grand Award

“Awarded to the top three titles developed in the Japan and Asia regions with the highest worldwide sales between October 2023 and September 2024”

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

Partner Award

“Awarded to titles developed in the Japan/Asia region with top-ranked worldwide sales between October 2023 and September 2024, with particularly noteworthy accomplishments.”

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

Special Award

“Awarded to PS5 titles developed in collaboration with SIE outside the Japan/Asia region that achieved outstanding success within Japan/Asia between October 2023 and September 2024.”

Rise of the Ronin (SIE, developed by Koei Tecmo)
Stellar Blade (SIE, developed by Shift Up)

User’s Choice Award

“Awarded to the top five titles released in the Japan/Asia region between October 2023 and September 2024, selected by user votes in the Japan/Asia region, out of the top 30 titles with the longest total gameplay time.”

Black Myth: Wukong (Game Science Interactive Technology)
Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth (Square Enix Co. Ltd)
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth (Sega)
Rise of the Ronin (SIE, developed by Koei Tecmo)
Stellar Blade (SIE, developed by Shift Up)

PlayStation Generations Awards

“Awarded to titles chosen by users in the Japan and Asia regions from each PlayStation generation – the original PlayStation, PS2, PSP, PS3, PS Vita, and PS4. All games are previous “PlayStation Partner Award” winners.”

PlayStation Generations (1994 and beyond)