PlayStation Spouse Awards 2025 Japan/Asia winners introduced – PlayStation.Weblog

These days, December 3 – Sony Interactive Leisure (SIE) held the PlayStation Spouse Awards Japan/Asia to have fun one of the crucial best possible PlayStation 5 titles that debuted in the course of the yr, made via creators in Japan and Asia. Learn on for a rundown of all of the video games that gained awards at this tournament.

For the 2025 PlayStation Spouse Awards, the standard Customers’ Selection Awards, Spouse Awards, and Grand Awards returned, along the Accessibility Award and the brand-new PlayStation Indies Award. The Accessibility and PlayStation Indies awards have fun the dedication to various play made via creators, in addition to spotting their creativity, building talent, and appreciation from PlayStation gamers.

PlayStation Spouse winners have been commemorated via long-standing individuals of Sony Interactive Leisure’s govt group, together with President and CEO of SIE, Hideaki Nishino, along the Senior Vice Presidents of International Spouse Building & Family members department, Pete Royea, Kiichiro Urata, and Phil Rosenberg. The PlayStation Spouse Awards stays a birthday party that honors the creativity of proficient builders, and celebrates the superb number of hit titles that PlayStation communities in Japan and Asia loved all over the yr.

Grand Award

Awarded to the highest 5 titles advanced within the Japan / Asia areas with the best possible international gross sales between October 2024 and September 2025*.

Spouse Award

Awarded to titles advanced within the Japan / Asia area with top-ranked international gross sales between October 2024 and September 2025**, with in particular noteworthy business accomplishments.

Accessibility Award

Awarded to titles advanced via Japan / Asia studios that introduced in 2025, notable for the prime quality and building effort in their available gameplay implementations, together with selection keep watch over schemes, colorblind modes, audio description, and extra.

PlayStation Indies Award

A brand new PlayStation Spouse Awards class, spotting the variability and creativity of impartial recreation creators and studios running in Japan/Asia. The identify listing was once curated from 12 exceptional indie titles produced in Japan and the wider Asia area, then voted on via PlayStation gamers. Mentioned John Vega, International Director of the Indies group: “It’s an honor to introduce the inaugural PlayStation Indies Award selected via you, the gamers. This award acknowledges one of the crucial superior Indie titles that experience launched on PlayStation during the last yr from our companions throughout Japan and Asia and celebrates their spectacular creativity. PlayStation loves Indies!”

Customers’ Selection Award

Awarded to the highest 5 titles launched within the Japan / Asia area between October 2024 and September 2025, decided on via person votes within the Japan/Asia area, out of the highest 30 titles with the longest general recreation play time.

* Calculated in response to bodily gross sales in addition to virtual gross sales made thru PlayStation Retailer (together with further content material and in-game forex).
** SIE’s personal signs, reminiscent of participant numbers, also are factored into the collection of nominees. Indexed publishers are that of the Jap PlayStation Retailer.

Listed here are messages from the recipients of the “Grand Award” to all of the gamers.

DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO

(Bandai Namco Leisure)

“We’re actually commemorated to obtain this outstanding award.

As the primary new installment within the collection in 17 years, this identify was once made conceivable due to the fantastic improve of our many lovers. This award is the results of the eagerness and exuberance everybody has persevered to deliver to the sport, even after its unlock. We wish to take this chance to as soon as once more prolong our honest gratitude. Thanks in your ongoing improve as we proceed running on long run tendencies.”

– DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO Staff

 eFootball

(Konami)

“We’re deeply commemorated to obtain the distinguished GRAND AWARD. From the discharge of the first actual Profitable 11 on PlayStation to its rebranding as eFootball, the collection is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this yr. We wish to prolong our gratitude to all of the gamers all over the world who’ve persevered to improve us. With the sector’s largest soccer tournament coming near subsequent yr, we predict an much more thrilling season forward. Our building and operations groups will proceed to paintings in combination to ship an much more passionate and stress-free soccer enjoy. Thanks in your persevered improve of eFootball.”

– Konami
Basic Manufacturer
Junichi Taya

Surprise Competitors

(NetEase Video games）

“We’re actually commemorated that Surprise Competitors has gained this reputation. Our heartfelt thank you pass to PlayStation for his or her super improve, to our group and Surprise Video games for his or her ongoing efforts, to our companions for his or her onerous paintings, and to the thousands and thousands of gamers who’ve persevered to improve our recreation and display us love.

Up to now yr, now we have presented over 40 superheroes to gamers thru Surprise Competitors. Transferring ahead, we will be able to try to ship even richer content material. We stay up for gamers proceeding to discover this various Surprise universe, moving into the jobs of superheroes who save the sector, and taking part in the fast moving battles.

As soon as once more, we categorical our gratitude to PlayStation and our gamers for his or her unwavering improve! We will be able to carefully track participant comments and are dedicated to offering much more thrilling content material at some point!”

– NetEase Video games
Lead Manufacturer
Weicong Wu

Monster Hunter Wilds

(CAPCOM)

“Our whole group is actually commemorated to obtain each the GRAND AWARD and the ACCESSIBILITY AWARD, in addition to a nomination for the USERS’ CHOICE AWARD. 

This recreation was once advanced with the objective of constructing a deeply immersive hunting-action enjoy that may be loved via each longtime lovers of the collection and rookies. In keeping with participant comments, we’re frequently refining and updating the sport to ship an much more at ease and thrilling looking enjoy.

We wish to categorical our heartfelt gratitude to everybody who has performed Monster Hunter Wilds, and we stay up for your persevered improve.”

– CAPCOM
Manufacturer
Ryozo Tsujimoto
Director
Yuya Tokuda

Zenless Zone 0

(HoYoverse)

“We’re deeply commemorated that Zenless Zone 0 has gained the GRAND AWARD for the PlayStation® Spouse Awards 2025, and we wish to sincerely thank gamers international and PlayStation for his or her improve of Zenless Zone 0, who’ve witnessed the expansion and evolution of Zenless Zone 0 over the process slightly over a yr. This award is each a testomony to and popularity of the adventure we’ve shared in combination, and it’s going to proceed to encourage us to create even higher gaming reports with hobby, determination, and sincerity.

The journey in New Eridu continues onwards, and we will be able to proceed to be pushed via your improve and comments to paintings tougher to form the original appeal of Zenless Zone 0 — pursuing a particular inventive taste, developing exhilarating fight reports, and handing over richer and high quality content material thru steady updates and optimizations. We stay up for exploring the secrets and techniques of New Eridu at the side of our Proxies as we head against a long run stuffed with never-ending probabilities for Zenless Zone 0.”

– HoYoverse
Manufacturer
Zhenyu Li