Squabbling over platforms is such a non-issue when you take a single step back. Why aren't the most popular free-to-start games on mobile consistently scoring high on this site? I'm pretty sure that almost everyone on ERA has a smartphone with either access to iTunes or Google Play whereas not everyone has a PS4.
No need to be snarky. I'm just laying out the facts from the OP.
Obviously, if the whole community thought that a free to play mobile game was among their top 10 games of the year, then yes, it would be seen here.
In fact, if everyone placed the mobile game as their #10 it would get 1157 points and end up at #4, and if everyone would place it as their #6 it would get 2314 points and end up at #2.
On the other hand if the question was "Which is the game of the year for you?", one vote per user, then the mobile game wouldn't be seen and it would look like this instead:
1. God of War, 330 votes
2. Red Dead Redemption 2, 152 votes
3. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, 80 votes
4. Celeste, 62 votes
5. Monster Hunter: World, 51 votes
6. Marvel's Spider-Man, 46 votes
7. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, 43 votes
8. Astro Bot Rescue Mission, 42 votes
9. Hollow Knight, 35 votes
10. Into The Breach, 22 votes
Ignoring the mobile game example, with the top10-list voting we got this:
1. God of War = 2351 points
2. Marvel's Spider-Man = 1463 points
3. Red Dead Redemption 2 = 1442 points
4. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate = 1082 points
5. Monster Hunter: World = 843 points
6. Celeste = 833 points
7. Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age = 575 points
9. Assassin's Creed Odyssey = 459 points
10. Detroit: Become Human = 436 points
And just for science, here is the global aggregate media GOTY:
1. God of War - 172
2. Red Dead Redemption 2 - 122
3. Marvel's Spider-Man - 16
4. Celeste - 7
5. Fortnite Battle Royale - 4
6. Monster Hunter: World - 4
7. Return of the Obra Dinn - 4
8. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 4
9. Tetris Effect - 4
10. Astro Bot Rescue Mission - 2
I'm not saying that the voting process should be changed or whatever. I'm just using the figures that we got to show some facts, how the math adds up, how a game with less actual GOTY votes can end up above the rest simply from being everywhere. I'll very much look forward to see what happens next gen, especially if we get off-sync launches so the userbases varies a lot. Switch will probably become a juggernaught, it's already up there from being a perfect secondary platform that almost everyone here have and N can't launch a new console anytime soon.