Apple Voted Largest Influence On Gaming Industry

[Comando96]

Hey look.

Jim Sterling was right

 

[Comando96]

I'm pretty sure that the playstation reinvented the wheel, not steve jobs and angry birds.

The playstation may well have re-invented the wheel but thats no good if they can't sell the so miraculous reinvention as it doesn't reach others.
Angry birds sold half a billion. 1/14 people on the fucking planet could own angry birds.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Uhhh...what? Did I fall asleep for 100 years and Apple took over the universe?

 

[NicoDK]

Spoiler

I still refuse to acknowledge mobile gaming as anything but a gimmick that needs to gtfo.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I have a feeling this vote was taken in an Apple store where a majority of the people voting have only touched Apple products.

 

[Doom972]

Until recent years, apple products (Macs) had very little to do with gaming.
Gaming became big back in the Atari days , not when Apple released the iPhone.
In the devices I would expect to see the Atari 2600, IBM PC, NES and Playstation 2. These made a real difference.
In the list of people I'm surprised that there's no mention of John Carmack. Steve Jobs definitely has nothing to do with games, even if there are many games for the iDevices.
These industry professionals seem to have fish-like memory. If you don't know the history of the gaming industry you aren't an industry professional.

 

[Anaphyis]

A bunch of tossers said something in an incredibly stupid survey. Good thing gaming journalism is on the ball here, I don't want to miss a single piece of irrelevant bullshit going on somewhere.

 

[The White Hunter]

Yes, Apple influenced the industry as a whole more than nintendo or sony ever did. Yes, of course. c://sarcasm....

[Edit] Surveys like this should really be asking gamers what they think, since really only we know what's been the biggest influence on us in the last few decades of gaming. How many people who game more than 5 minutes a week on a bus would actually class steve jobs as more important than people who created mario or sonic or steam?

 

[Dark Knifer]

When the videogame market crumbled the only ones who were willing to release a console was a little known Japanese company called nintendo.

That thought brought a smile to my face for some reason and I'm not even much of a nintendo fan.

OT: Obviously biased poll is obvious. Nothing really more to say.

 

[ishist]

Jobs and Apple were instrumental in shaping gaming....this week.....in a few peoples opinion.....while they were taking a poll on their iPhone on their way to work.......after reading over 9000 articles about Jobs this week.

 

[Comando96]

I'm pretty sure that the playstation reinvented the wheel, not steve jobs and angry birds.

The playstation may well have re-invented the wheel but thats no good if they can't sell the so miraculous reinvention as it doesn't reach others.
Angry birds sold half a billion. 1/14 people on the fucking planet could own angry birds.

Bad comparison.

The ps1 and the ps2 also sold about a quarter of a billion between them, and they aren't 70p pieces of toilet time sink designed to be picked up and forgotten about minutes later. They're the consoles which spawned the current generation of gaming as we know it.

Shit, I would argue that the Game Boy has more of a right to be on any list of influential gaming devices then any current gen console, let alone the iPhone...

...Well the PS3 is an update and that does not transfer over to individuals sold to whereas you don't buy angry birds twice (unless your retarded). The PS3 sold 55 million units while the PS2 sold 3 times that kinda arguing that its impact diminished (Xbox 360 sold 57 million) so overall consoles lost players. Therefore the scope is wider and increasing casual games, pioneered by angry birds as opposed to the short lived reign of the consoles (with my PC gaming trodding along at a happy 100 million+).

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Steam has only 2%???

This is quite suspicious indeed...

 

[Comando96]

So selling alot of budget titles is more important to gaming then nintendo that brought consoles into the homes

Yes they are...
88.3 million Units sold.
Not to mention the least active user group [http://www.next-gen.biz/news/nielsen-wii-has-lowest-user-activity]

and then the playstation that made gaming cool that turned an entire age group into "gamers"

Well sadly the legacy of said device saw a 33% fall in total console users when they both upgraded to the next generation. That sort of reign is known as the Alexander the Great Reign. If you think the term Alexander the Great reign is good then you don't understand your history.

and the microsoft that made a operating system that 99% of all games are made and developed on?

If your going to play that card then we may as well dedicate the biggest impact to the creation of games to Tommy Flowers.

I'll let you do the research with that one.

Sorry but thats bullshit, it seems that everyone has gotten the steve job virus that makes people believe hes jesus christ since he died, sorry but I don't drink that koolaid.

Times are a changing and... people hate Microsoft, think Nintendo is a gimmick, Sony... psn... that pretty much leaves apple as the last company in any good standing.

Also apple lead the way with the ipod and then iphone which has lead to the new shapes of games on those devices, which are selling at an insanely high rate, for a lot wider audience.

I can't possibly think of how many flash games I played BEFORE the casual games came along (and I got a PC that didn't suffer frame rate drops when playing a flash game)

 

[silasbufu]

Thank you , Steve Jobs , for bringing me great games such as Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale, Planescape Torment, The Elder Scrolls Series, Gran Turismo , Mortal Kombat , Quake , Doom, Half-Life , Dragon Age , Mass Effect , Fallout , Neverwinter Nights, Diablo , Guild Wars, Warcraft , Final Fantasy , Call of Duty , Halo , Resident Evil , Syberia and so many other motherfucking awesome games / series !

Oh wait...