Steve Jobs, most important man in gaming history

Maybe they were thinking about how he helped Pixar, and how Pixar probably wouldnt be the company it is without him. Pixar certainly helped further animation, which is important in video games. Include with that his influence on computers and you could make an argument. However, when you put him up against Miyamoto and Gabe he really doesnt stand a chance.

@Danteveli said:

Dude is dead there was a lot of fuss about hime being brilliant in media so people believe in stuff like that. If Michael Jackson was an option he would easily won.

Well at least Michael Jackson had a good game and contributed music to Sonic 3. I'd say he was more influential.

Hipster answer for a hipster audience.

@stinky said:

he did work at Atari.

Preach!

@Hailinel said:

Who the heck was their survey audience?

This what I am curious about.

@deathstriker666 said:

It's understandable. Steve Jobs was way more of a public figure than Gabe or Miyamoto would ever be in their entire lives. That's pretty much all this survey proves.

Well, also, Steve Jobs dealt more with the hardware and interface-type stuff. The others were more on the actuality of videogames, dealing with world-design and characters. It's pretty much apples to oranges. Ken Levine should totally be on there. System Shock 2 FTW.

Did the iPhone have a huge impact on portable gaming? Yeah, totally. Is Steve Jobs the most important man in video games? Hell no.

Thats mad man.

Bullshit. He may have done many things in his life, shaping video games was not one of them.

Hipster answer for a hipster audience.

@Napalm said:

@Hailinel said:

Who the heck was their survey audience?

This what I am curious about.

Again, the attendees of the London Games Conference.

Its cuz he just died...

It's a fair claim though I think the problem is that people are using Steve Jobs instead of Apple. The iPhone as a gaming platform has barely begun and still stands to change the face of the industry even more dramatically. But I wouldn't chalk it all up to the one man, his work wasn't over, and people will pick it up.

Uh, he's not even in the discussion.

Well his company is changing the culture of handheld gaming but I would still say Miyamoto is still the most important man in gaming history.

You can't be serious?

Miyamoto only 7%? Wow.

Sure, because the most important events in video game history occurred in the last 5 years. Everyone knows that, right?

@Verb4tim said:

You can't be serious?

Well, these people who voted seem to have been totally Siri. Am I right?

That's sad. No one knows about Shigeru Minamoto.

So how long until someone proposes burning Steve Job's face onto the surface of the moon? I mean, he was obviously the most important human ever...

Sure, because when I think of what I want out of a gaming platform, I want to make sure it includes my phone, mp3 player, web browser, calendar, sms and most importantly NO PHYSICAL INPUTS TO PLAY THE GAME WITH!!!

@JoeyRavn: Just shows that most of the Apple "i" product fans don't really know why Steve Jobs meant so much to that company and will give him credit for everything ever invented. The guy had his hand involved in a lot of things from Pixar - computers - media distribution, but he didn't really do anything for game development IMO.

Really? No Tomohiro Nishikado love? I'm fairly certain that "invented the iPhone" can't beat "invented the concept of a difficulty curve".

All he did for videogames was kill the fucking portable market. And what would he even have to do with fucking videogames on the iPhone anyway? Did he contribute lines of code to Fruit Ninja? Did he draw art work for angry birds? No, he was the CEO of the company who made the device the games were programmed on. People are dumb.

 He popularized the mouse, changed the face of handheld gaming, and thats about it.

we all know its shigzy, delete this silly thread :)

I just don't get how all those people came to that conclusion, especially when they were at a video game specific event. They should know more if they're attending such things.

@Jimbo said:

Steve Jobs for President.

Too soon... or too late?

If those people that voted on him were thinking that by doing so they were honoring him or something, they're wrong. They're actually disrespecting him, by showing how little they know about him.

Its a wellknown fact that steve jobs invented the world and could walk on water.

I don't know about you guys but I can play dead space, Rage, some nifty small games like tiny wings, scribblnoughts, game dev story on my phone!

Before the iphone, all we had was texas hold'em, snake and solitaire.

@AnimalFather:

But didn't he ban the ability from further use after people started jailbreaking water so they could do it, too?