The Game Awards 2024, nice surprises but also big absentees: what happened to them?

The latest edition of The Game Awards has undoubtedly turned out to be one of the richest and most explosive ever. You only need to read the summary of The Game Awards 2024 to realize how many big surprises there were, but also to notice many big absences.

It certainly seems quite surprising that Hideo Kojima did not show anything of his games currently in development. The famous game designer was physically present at the event but simply limited himself to announcing an award and then sitting in the audience keeping an unusually low profile for a figure of his caliber. At The Game Awards 2023, OD was announced, but its absence can be understood considering that this specific game is presumably still a long way from becoming a reality. Death Stranding 2 On The Beach, however, is another matter being confirmed for 2025 and some updates on its development were to be expected. Instead, Kojima fans must continue to wait patiently.

In an event so full of announcements and big names, Nintendo's almost total absence is also striking, as it showed nothing during The Game Awards 2024. Clearly, no one expected any news about Nintendo Switch 2 during the event hosted by Geoff Keighley, but it seems curious that the Big N did not even show up with updates on the titles already announced or revealing some other smaller project or re-release to further warm up the first months of 2025 for Switch (did someone say Metroid Prime 2 Remastered?). At this point, it is reasonable to imagine that Nintendo is simply waiting for the right moment to unveil its new console, and perhaps that will be the occasion to reveal its next flagship games.

Some might also mention Grand Theft Auto VI among the most notable absences, but a presence of the new episode of the series was almost impossible anyway, considering that Rockstar Games usually skips any type of event to manage announcements and publications of new trailers completely independently. the new blockbuster from the New York studio was still present in a certain sense: GTA 6 was elected the most anticipated game of 2025 at the TGA 2024 and will certainly continue to be at the center of attention in the coming months.

There are also many great and highly anticipated games that have deserted the TGA. By now it is useless to joke about the umpteenth absence of Hollow Knight Silksong from a big event, but it also makes you wonder what happened to Metal Gear Solid Delta Snake Eater, which continues to be without a release date. Many expected the official announcement of Resident Evil 9 at the event and that was not the case, but it is also true that Capcom already had a lot on its plate with the new Onimusha and Okami, preferring not to even show new trailers for Monster Hunter Wilds, which is getting closer and closer to its release. No news even on the many Microsoft games currently in the works, The Outer Worlds 2 excluded: it is true that many of the next flagship titles of the Redmond giant are still far from becoming reality, but perhaps a little space for the new Fable could have been found.

Obviously with the TGA 2024 which were in any case very rich in announcements and surprises, it was certainly not possible to find space for every single existing or rumored game, and in the end even so the evening was memorable. Which games would you have liked to see at the TGA?