A survey of attendees of the upcoming London Game Conference has named the late Steve Jobs as the most influential person in gaming, and the iPhone as the most influential product.
Jobs led the poll with 26 percent of the vote. Next in line was Valve founder Gabe Newell with 16 percent, followed by Nintendo’s beloved Shigeru Miyamoto with just 7%. World Wide Web creator Tim Berners-Lee and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg got measly 4% and 3% shares, respectively.
The iPhone won the product vote by a slightly less overwhelming margin. 17% of voters said it was the product that shaped the industry the most, followed by the Wii at 7%. Oddly, Valve’s Steam fell to fifth place in the product poll with just 2% of the vote.
Still, the Apple love appears to have been overwhelming. Of the 1,000 respondents, 46% put Jobs somewhere in their top 5 lists, and 53% of the pool put the iPhone in their top 5s.
The London conference centers on gaming’s transition to digital distribution and monetization, which may have significantly skewed the results.
via MCV
Blake’s Opinion
There’s no doubting that these results are tapping what’s on game executives’ minds right now. That is, Steve Jobs’ passing is still fresh, and they’re probably still working their way through his biography.
Together, smartphones and social networks have forced a great number of rapid changes to the gaming industry, and the business world is judging game studios by how they respond to these huge changes. At their peaks, they have amazingly high numbers but are still on the same order of magnitude: Angry Birds has over 300 million downloads and Zynga has had 200 million active players in the last month according to AppData.
Yet in this poll, Zuck gets a 3% share of the vote and Steve gets 26%. In the product category, Facebook didn’t show up at all in the top 5 while the iPhone dominated.
It’s understandable that the influence of old giants like Nintendo and Valve would wane in this brave new world of gaming. But it’s much more difficult to suggest that Apple has had over eight times the impact that Facebook has had.
If this poll were conducted in a year’s time, I suspect Apple’s positions would come back down a bit to be more in line with the other titans of gaming. More tellingly, I’d bet that if it were conducted earlier this year, amidst the Zynga IPO hype, Zuck and Facebook gaming could have taken the cake.
Source: http://www.geek.com/articles/games/steve-jobs-voted-gamings-most-influential-figure-2011114/
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