Steve Jobs named most influential game guy – ever
Most influential platform? Guess...
Who has been most influential person in gaming history? The late Steve Jobs. What is the product that has most influenced game development? The iPhone.
Here are the top five in each category, as determined by the survey:
Top five people to have shaped video games:
- Steve Jobs
- Gabe Newell (cofounder and managing director of Valve)
- Shigeru Miyamoto (developer of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda)
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Mark Zuckerberg
Top five products to have shaped video games:
- Apple iPhone
- Nintendo Wii
- Microsoft Xbox Live
- The original Sony PlayStation
- Valve's Steam
Your humble Reg reporter has as much respect for Steve Jobs as the next guy – well, more, if some of the opinions of Reg commentards are any indication – but to rate Jobs' influence above that of Miyamoto and Berners-Lee seems a bit colored by the tsunami of adulation that has followed the Apple cofounder's recent untimely death.
And the iPhone being more influential than the original PlayStation? We'll have to rely on the expert judgment of those 1,000 gaming execs for that glowing assessment – although it must be admitted that the iPhone has, indeed, vaulted casual gaming into the limelight.
That said, your opinions are eagerly sought in the comments section.
But thats the dumbest fucking list I have ever seen. Sounds like it was actually a list of who we need to keep sweet....
STEVE JOBS the man who......
Found world peace
Walked on water
Created the world
What a sycophantic world we live in, influential in video games, my a*se.
Even he would be looking down from wherever he is now and saying 'what a bunch of plonkers!'
Oh please... if they made a survey today about the most influential man in the history of competitive extreme ironing Steve Jobs would be voted in...
How is this guy more influential to video games than the inventor of the freaking WWW?!?!?!