Switch's Stellar First Year Helps Nintendo Bag Itself An AMD Excellence Award

"Koizumi said he wouldn’t have expected Nintendo to have won one year ago and wanted to make people immersed in games 24 hours a day with the Switch. Takahashi speaking of the future says that he will continue to make amazing things."

AMD is just bitter that they were left behind after Wii U.

We all know that real innovation is the 12.4 gijabityes of GDDRDRDD53 RAM in the Xbox One X.

@westman98 true you made me laugh

@TheOpponent wrong amd. Read the article.

@faint I did. "Considering it's an Nvidia chip inside Switch, we don't imagine that AMD has much reason to champion Switch!"

I did a double take until I read the article... I'm still going to say this though:

Thanks nVidia!

Missed a good subtitle with "Not THAT AMD"

That's well played Nintendo. Well played ol' chap.

Well deserved. Congratulations Nintendo!

"AMD suffers invidia as Nintendo wins AMD with nVidia"

Who were the other nominees in this category? I'd be curious to see what kind of competition they were up against.

Unless this was more of a "lifetime achievement award" sort of thing, where they were just honored at the ceremony...

congrats to Nintendo!

Wonder how many times he clicked his fingers?

A good year for the big N...and the little n too!

Now we need a new Mario RPG and the Switch will be perfect. ( Remember the Mario RPG on the SNES?)

@Cloud-Strife
I see Mario Rabbids Kingdom Battle filling that role.

It's a Mario SRPG crossover with a major 3rd party AAA developer, and it's really good.

Fits the bill surprisingly well.

I find it odd that AMD just gave NVIDIA an award 😹

Luckily Nintendo won because we dont want (A)nother (M)assive (D)iassapointment.

@RusevDay Different AMD, read the article.

Congrats Nintendo!

We all read the article just to see why AMD chose to give award to a Nvidia console...

Props to Nintendo. Funny how making something new and innovative wins out over simply doing the same thing over and over.

AMD (Association of Media in Digital). Not AMD (Advanced Micro Devices).

If I remember correctly Nintendo systems are no stranger to winning awards. Especially since Japan is big on energy conservation. Nintendo systems are known for their low energy consumption for which they've gained lots of recognition.
From the Nintendo life archives there was also this article : Wii U Wins "Deals Award" For Being One Of The Best Kids Items This Holiday Season

Nintendo wins the Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence.

Now if only there was an award for the most bland Nintendo Direct. I miss Iwata

@JaxonH I agree buddy, It's an amazing game.
But I can't help help it, I would love to see a sequel to Mario RPG. I love everything about that game.

Is it my imagination or were they given an actual spear as part of the award?

I don’t know why, but I think it should be a more common practice to give away ornate weaponry at awards ceremonies. Maybe to the losers...

Why were they dressed up like banquet waiters?

Hooray, Nintendo won some imaginary award that no one has heard of

@Prizm you mean that you haven’t heard of. https://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/corporate-responsibility/community/volunteerism/awards

@faint said "you mean that you haven’t heard of. https://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/corporate-responsibility/community/volunteerism/awards"

lol You must not have heard of it either, because you've provided a link to not only the wrong award, but the wrong company. The article says it's not the same AMD that makes CPUs and GPUs.