Back on September 21st, Microsoft Japan held an invitation-only awards ceremony in Japan. At the event, Capcom was surprisingly awarded the “Great XBLA Award” (The XBOX Live Arcade “GOTY” award) for Street Fighter II: Hyper Fighting.

Now this is definitely great and all, but what’s odd is that Hyper Fighting wasn’t even released/published on Japan XBLA, meaning it was just Japanese players playing on accounts registered elsewhere that have made the title a smash success over there as well.

Japanese gamers. They’re in our region, playing our games.