Wednesday, 2 November 2011
Apple founder and all round IT visionary Steve Jobs was voted most influential person with 26 per cent of the overall vote (and 46 per cent of the top five winners’ vote). And Apple’s hero gaming device - the iPhone – received one in six (17 per cent) of the votes to take the most influential product moniker.
The top five people and products from the survey, which was carried out by the London Games Conference (10th November, central London), are below:
Top five people to have shaped video games
(First figures are percentage of overall vote; second are percentage of top five votes)
- Steve Jobs 26% 46%
- Gabe Newell (co-founder and managing director of Valve) 16% 29%
- Shigeru Miyamoto (developer of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda) 7% 12%
- Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the world wide web) 4% 8%
- Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook) 3% 5%
- Apple’s iPhone 17% 53%
- Nintendo Wii console 7% 22%
- Xbox Live 3% 9%
- The original PlayStation console 3% 9%
- Steam (digital distribution) 2% 7%
“In just over three years the iPhone and the App Store have transformed what consumers expect of games, and how the industry makes and sells them – today, download games have come to the fore. Steve Jobs, the iPhone’s driving force, was the ultimate independent developer – uncompromising in his vision, with unquestionable influence, and hugely artistic and commercial results,” commented Michael French, editor in chief, MCV.
“Apple thrived by linking ultra-desirable mobile devices to compelling online services. Likewise, the web and connected services like Facebook and Steam have transformed how humans behave and interact, so it’s little wonder to see all of these products and their progenitors Tim Berners-Lee, Gabe Newell and Mark Zuckerberg rank highly in our London Games Conference survey."
The London Games Conference – now in its third year – takes place on 10 November at One Wimpole Street in Central London. The full speaker line up can be found here.
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