I fear that neither Splatoon nor Xenoblade Chronicles X would get nominated for GOTY for 2015's Video Game Awards due to westerners having some sort of bias against nominating Nintendo games that aren't Mario or Zelda onto the GOTY category, not to mention the potential contenders for this year (Witcher 3, MGSV, and Fallout 4) are open world games, a genre which XCX also is, which are bound to be GOTY material.