Sony Interactive Entertainment/PlayStation Studios
It’s probably not too surprising that the vote unanimously went to SIE for this year’s Best Publisher award. Besides releasing the new PS5 console, the Sony published lineup of games was phenomenal. It was a great year to be a PlayStation gamer.
The Last of Us Part II, Ghost of Tsushima, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and plenty more outlined a fantastic year for the publisher. Sony made a new PlayStation Studios banner under which to house all of its studios and new releases. Sony was also the first major publisher to take serious precautions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic, pulling out of PAX East back in February out of an—at the time—abundance of caution. The move now seems like a pretty smart and prescient one on Sony’s end with how COVID and the pandemic panned out.