Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: 1 Game of the Year award

No: Pokémon Diamond and Pearl collected 1 Game of the Year award in 2006 and finished No. 13; the season went to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion with 42. Spike Video Game Awards named The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion its Game of the Year.

Pokémon Diamond Version and Pokémon Pearl Version are role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo DS in 2006. They are the first installments in the fourth generation of the Pokémon video game series.

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Pokémon Diamond and Pearl finished #13 in the 2006 race, with 1 GOTY award from media outlets and reader votes worldwide.

1Total awards
0Media outlets
1Readers' choice
1Countries

Also in the 2006 season: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (42), Gears of War (34), The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (28) · full results

Quick answers

How many Game of the Year awards did Pokémon Diamond and Pearl win?

Pokémon Diamond and Pearl won 1 Game of the Year award in the 2006 season — 0.8% of every award tracked that season. 0 came from editorial picks and 1 from readers' polls, across 1 country.

Did Pokémon Diamond and Pearl win Game of the Year?

No. It finished No. 13 in 2006, behind The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, which collected 42 Game of the Year awards.

Game facts

Single-playerYes
Co-opNo
Split screenNo
MultiplayerYes
Online multiplayerNo
Released28 September 2006
DeveloperGame Freak
PublisherNintendo, The Pokémon Company

role-playing video game
Nintendo DS

Where the awards came from

Country	Awards
Japan	1

Every outlet that named it Game of the Year

Outlet	Country	Year
Famitsu Readers	Japan	2006

← Full 2006 results

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.