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Here's a better link:
http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/winners.html

(What moron posted a "Newsweek" link for God's sake?)

Yeah - I need the karma. ;)

I think they just want to see how many years they can keep winning Games Critics Awards Best Original Game at E3.

In order to compete, a game be shown in playable format. For the 2006 awards season, playable format is defined as the ability for the judge to manipulate a game in real-time while running on its native platform (i.e. "hands on" gameplay).

Note on software eligibility: Judges were given the option of "hands-on" gameplay with all nominated games. Games shown in non-playable form were not eligible for awards.

the PS2 lags pretty significantly in its technology (long loading times, framerates, jaggies).

I will admit very few people have put it all together but the PS2 has prove to be very compenent in all three areas you mentioned. JAK 2 and 3 showed that load times where unecessary, Ico, Shadow of the Colossus and God of War shows that Jagies are no issue (oh and they have no load time issues), God of war showed slow down is a thing of the past , and GT4 showed that when you can sustain 1080i then frame rate is really insignificant. It's interesting that PS2 games get better while XBox games stay pretty so so. Most Xbox fans will tell you that beyond a few minor things like downloadable content, Halo is superior to Halo 2. Oh and by the way does XBox even have any games other than the Halo series? I just realize I can't recall any other Xbox games that get the kind of talk that Katamari Damashi, Disgae or the obvious Final Fantasy get.

So lets try and nip the fan boy thing in the bud once and for all.
Game Critic Awards for 2005 show not one XBox exclusive winner, where ps2 has 2 and heck ps3 grabs 2.
We can make it 2 to 2 at Game Developers Choice awards, and that's including one given to xbox the the I love bees thing.
Over at spike tv Xbox gets the lead with two exclusives where PS2 gets none.
Ign in 2004 (because 2005 is not out yet) give 5 best ofs to PS2 and 2 to Xbox.
I would have put of Gamespots best of but with the buzz I have going it was to hard to calculate.

I guess if you are interested in spending $400 (I'm talking earlier adopters) for the one game worth playing on XBox, then that's fine with me.. I mean there were a few people that shelled out over $200 a pop for neo-geo games.

Spike TV broadcast this, but they are not responsible for handing out the awards, it is still fine to think that they are ridiculous.

The awards were actually awarded by these people: http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/

Considering is spike tv I was almost sure DOA4 and True Crime 2 would get all the prizes, but If you actually go and check the nominees here:
http://www.gamecriticsawards.com/nom.html
They (at least apparently) took the nomination seriously, actually only playable games were nominated.

The obvious problem is the hardware section were x360 and ps3 were nominated. considering they were both "faked" we never actually saw prototypes of both of them. So its a contest of "who faked their system better"

Oh well... the rest does seem ok. I just hope soulcalibur 3 gets the fighter award (is better than the rest) Nintendo will probably get some awards thanks to Zelda. (sorry but I dont really see nintendogs winning an award) and you dont need to be a genious to realize spore is going away with a big prize home .