Apple Voted Largest Influence On Gaming Industry‎

**@ruantec** · November 3rd, 2011, 23:58

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Steve Jobs Voted Most Influential Man in Video Games, Igniting a Firestorm of Complaints

He didn’t develop a single game, console, or arcade machine himself, but according to Eurogamer, the majority of the 1,000 people surveyed 26% believe that Steve Jobs is the man who shaped video games

Move over, Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, Atari, Valve, you are all nothing in the history books as it seems you all been forgotten in the new high-tech era of Apple and their iPhone, as a recent survey shows:

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According to the 1,000 video game industry workers who recently filled out a London Games Conference survey, Steve Jobs and the iPhone have been the biggest influences in the gaming field.

That puts Jobs - who received 26 per cent of the vote - ahead of Valve's Gabe Newell (16 per cent), Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto (seven per cent), Tim Berners-Lee (four per cent), and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (three per cent).

Product-wise, the iPhone (17 per cent) managed to topple Nintendo's motion-controlled Wii (seven per cent), Microsoft's Xbox Live service (three per cent), Sony's rather excellent PSone (three per cent), and online distribution platform Steam (two per cent).

46 per cent of all those polled in this survey included Steve Jobs somewhere in their top five influences, with 53 per cent including the iPhone.

Very strange, but if you look at the resumes for the 1,000 people that voted you see why, they are all 'working' for smaller-time developers most of these studios would have never existed if it was not for the 'app store' on the iPhone.

Noone from EA, or other big companies were included in this survey, so really the outcome would be more directed towards Apple!

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hmmmmm i think am dreaming or probably there are some people out there that smoked some strange stuff lately..... not sure about first one.

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Silenus · November 4th, 2011, 00:23

It has been a tremendous influence lately, you can't deny that.
But overall Nintendo and it's gameboys are what paved the way for handhelds.

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tykel · November 4th, 2011, 00:24

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Originally Posted by @ruantec

hmmmmm i think am dreaming or probably there are some people out there that smoked some strange stuff lately..... not sure about first one.

Well, the OP states that the survey seems biased towards iPhone-App developers and that ecosystem, so no big surprises here...

My 2c about the survey: I would place Hiroshi Yamauchi (ex-CEO of Nintendo), Gabe Newell (Steam) and Gunpei Yokoi somewhere near the top -- all for different reasons. And let's not forget Miyamoto of course

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**@ruantec** · November 4th, 2011, 00:28

Yeah, i can understand it has some influence since few years but saying that Steve Jobs is the most influential man in video games is just plently wrong in my eyes hence why i totally disagree with that survey

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**blueshogun96** · November 4th, 2011, 01:10

I'd say Steve Jobbs is the most influential man behind mobile gaming as we know it today due to the massive success of the app store (iPhone is the most profitable mobile handheld gaming platform besides the DS), but not gaming as a whole. Apple's one and only game console, the Pippin, was pretty awful from what I read.

How can people NOT know the legacy of Ralph Baer? If it weren't for his innovation and persistence, we wouldn't have video games to begin with.

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Strike105X · November 4th, 2011, 08:56

Apple being influential in today's mobile/handheld gaming, yes. Apple having the largest influence on gaming industry... well you'll have to excuse my skepticism, but i kind of doubt that...

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**cottonvibes** · November 4th, 2011, 09:18

i don't think you can name a single person as being the most influential person with respect to video games.

videogames have evolved through time; there have been a few key series that have started genres, and other games that have evolved on those concepts.

i highly disagree with Steve Jobs being ranked the winner in such a poll. the mac os is known for having a limited amount of supported games for it compared to windows; and ios games are no better than the random flash games you find online.

steve jobs being ranked the most influential person in video games, is equivalent to bill gates being ranked the most influential person in emulation... since the majority of emulators are for windows. its misleading to be considering someone w/o a direct influence on the subject to be the most influential person.

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aceloop · November 4th, 2011, 12:32

This is BS. What did Steve Jobs do for the gaming world?

bunch of morons where part of the voting i guess.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · November 4th, 2011, 13:02

Baloney. Nintendo win that easily with the original gameboy.

And I really don't get how the iPhone keeps getting toted for completely changing the focus of handheld gaming when Java games itself were already well on the way just lacking a bit of graphical oomph. A lot of the devs on iPhone now used to be Java devs before Symbian became dead-end.

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Silenus · November 4th, 2011, 13:20

As I said on the mobile market yeah they have been the biggest influence lately thanks to its appstore.
Indie devs got a great chance.
It showed that you don't need a big gaming company to make games and turn a profit.
You can read a lot of sucess stories around of part time devs who made thousands of dollars in apps/games made on spare time.
Although quality ratio took a dive there are some gems that stand out.

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snickothemule · November 4th, 2011, 13:36

Yeah, he has had modern influence, 99c games are hard to come by, and considering it's stupidly easy to buy games on the app store for penny's millions are doing it all the time, even if they only play the game once. Too bad there are only a handful of games worth a look, and touch screen gaming has severe problems with it's control interface (I don't really care what anyone says, touch screens make horrible controllers).

But most influential man in gaming? I sincerely think not.

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Phil · November 4th, 2011, 13:57

Steve Jobs will have Created the Heavens and the Earth next.

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Strike105X · November 4th, 2011, 14:00

Actually pretty soon we will find out that Steve Jobs was the second coming of Christ and now he's returned to heavens to his father side.

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Bill_gates · November 4th, 2011, 16:11

more Steve Jobs c0ck riding from know-nothing sheep...

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Ahielia · November 4th, 2011, 16:15

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Steve Jobs will have Created the Heavens and the Earth next.

In a few hundred years, they will be saying that.
God who?

Silenus · November 4th, 2011, 16:18

Angry Birds Reaches 500 Million Downloads

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According to Rovio, this makes Angry Birds the most downloaded game in the history of gaming

Back in September, Angry Birds developer Rovio was celebrating 350 million downloads of the popular mobile game, as well as film and merchandise deals galore. Now, Rovio has announced that Angry Birds has flung its way into 500 million total downloads.

According to Rovio, this makes Angry Birds the most downloaded game in the history of gaming. In fact, Angry Birds gamers around the world play 300 million minutes daily collectively, and have played a total of 200,000 years so far.

Also, Rovio reported that 266 billion levels of Angry Birds has been played total with 400 billion birds flung and 44 billion Stars collected.

Say good bye to gaming history as you know it.

Stupid birds are getting bigger than Mario.

What I mean is that casual gamers have some massive stats and are overwhelming the gaming industry. So in their minds without prior gaming background they hail games like Farmville, Angry Birds and the sort as the best thing in the industry.

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ElijahTW · November 4th, 2011, 16:21

Angry Birds is pretty fun though.

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**SCHUMI_4EVER** · November 4th, 2011, 16:33

I'm not surprised since Angry Birds is in an entirely different league from other casual games and something completely new gaming wise. There's no Physics puzzle quite like it. The closest thing I've see is Digital Chocolate's Penguin Catapult but that doesn't have any moving physics, just collisions.

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Phil · November 4th, 2011, 16:45

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Angry Birds is pretty fun though.

Indeed it is

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**blueshogun96** · November 4th, 2011, 19:26

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November 4th, 2011, 00:23	#2
Silenus Pilgrim Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hyperion Posts: 6,880	It has been a tremendous influence lately, you can't deny that. But overall Nintendo and it's gameboys are what paved the way for handhelds. __________________ DELL XPS 13 ULTRABOOK ...Mis sueños son mentiras que algun día dejarán de serlo...

November 4th, 2011, 00:28	#4
@ruantec Crazy GFX coder Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Dominican Republic/Austria Posts: 8,101	Yeah, i can understand it has some influence since few years but saying that Steve Jobs is the most influential man in video games is just plently wrong in my eyes hence why i totally disagree with that survey __________________ Current development tools: Visual C++.net, Visual C#.net Visual VB.net, Visual Webdeveloper.net Bloodshed Dev C++, Borland C++ Visual Basic 6

November 4th, 2011, 01:10	#5
blueshogun96 Last Xbox Emu Author Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 5,843	I'd say Steve Jobbs is the most influential man behind mobile gaming as we know it today due to the massive success of the app store (iPhone is the most profitable mobile handheld gaming platform besides the DS), but not gaming as a whole. Apple's one and only game console, the Pippin, was pretty awful from what I read. How can people NOT know the legacy of Ralph Baer? If it weren't for his innovation and persistence, we wouldn't have video games to begin with. __________________ Official Website of Shogun3D's RyuAwai! Shogun3D Game Development Blog Zengjük a Dalt: Manliest Song Ever!

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Strike105X ヒットハード＆高速 Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Aincrad Posts: 13,679	Apple being influential in today's mobile/handheld gaming, yes. Apple having the largest influence on gaming industry... well you'll have to excuse my skepticism, but i kind of doubt that... __________________ DeviantArt\|AnimeList\|PC Config

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cottonvibes You're already dead... Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Planet Vegeta Posts: 5,385	i don't think you can name a single person as being the most influential person with respect to video games. videogames have evolved through time; there have been a few key series that have started genres, and other games that have evolved on those concepts. i highly disagree with Steve Jobs being ranked the winner in such a poll. the mac os is known for having a limited amount of supported games for it compared to windows; and ios games are no better than the random flash games you find online. steve jobs being ranked the most influential person in video games, is equivalent to bill gates being ranked the most influential person in emulation... since the majority of emulators are for windows. its misleading to be considering someone w/o a direct influence on the subject to be the most influential person. __________________ "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein check out my blog

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aceloop Me > You Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hotel Dusk Posts: 1,513	This is BS. What did Steve Jobs do for the gaming world? bunch of morons where part of the voting i guess. Last edited by aceloop; November 4th, 2011 at 13:06..

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SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Most-expensive-Internet-on-the-Planet Land : South Africa Posts: 26,333	Baloney. Nintendo win that easily with the original gameboy. And I really don't get how the iPhone keeps getting toted for completely changing the focus of handheld gaming when Java games itself were already well on the way just lacking a bit of graphical oomph. A lot of the devs on iPhone now used to be Java devs before Symbian became dead-end. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

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Silenus Pilgrim Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Hyperion Posts: 6,880	As I said on the mobile market yeah they have been the biggest influence lately thanks to its appstore. Indie devs got a great chance. It showed that you don't need a big gaming company to make games and turn a profit. You can read a lot of sucess stories around of part time devs who made thousands of dollars in apps/games made on spare time. Although quality ratio took a dive there are some gems that stand out. __________________ DELL XPS 13 ULTRABOOK ...Mis sueños son mentiras que algun día dejarán de serlo...

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snickothemule Hello Cudie Pie! Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia Posts: 4,862	Yeah, he has had modern influence, 99c games are hard to come by, and considering it's stupidly easy to buy games on the app store for penny's millions are doing it all the time, even if they only play the game once. Too bad there are only a handful of games worth a look, and touch screen gaming has severe problems with it's control interface (I don't really care what anyone says, touch screens make horrible controllers). But most influential man in gaming? I sincerely think not. __________________ My grass is the greenest.

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SCHUMI_4EVER Hackin 'n Slashin Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Most-expensive-Internet-on-the-Planet Land : South Africa Posts: 26,333	I'm not surprised since Angry Birds is in an entirely different league from other casual games and something completely new gaming wise. There's no Physics puzzle quite like it. The closest thing I've see is Digital Chocolate's Penguin Catapult but that doesn't have any moving physics, just collisions. __________________ Intel Core2Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz stock) \| ASUS P5Q \| 2x2GB Transcend JetRam DDR2-800 \| ASUS ENGTX260\HDTP\896M \| Windows Vista Home Premium 64bit SP1 The Champ has retired but may his Legacy live on FOREVER !!!! No$GBA DS FAQ 2.0 Get it right fools! The glass is HALF-EMPTY, not half-full!!! !!! WARNING: Emulation requires a brain !!! WARNING: Emulation =/= Piracy !!!

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