Games industry votes Apple as biggest influence

**BoyBettaKnow** · 11-02-2011

Apple has had a bigger impact on video games than Nintendo or PlayStation 1.

That's according 1000 people working within the video games industry, who filled out a London Games Conference survey ahead of its start (10th November).The top five people that have shaped video games are, apparently, Steve Jobs (26 per cent), Gabe Newell (16 per cent), Shigeru Miyamoto (seven per cent), Tim Berners-Lee (four per cent) and Mark Zuckerberg (three per cent).A considerable 46 per cent of voted Steve Jobs somewhere in a top-five position.The top five products to have shaped video games are, apparently, iPhone (17 per cent), Wii (seven per cent), Xbox Live (three per cent), PlayStation 1 (three per cent) and Steam (two per cent).There must have been a wide spread of results for the top-five entrants to have such a low percentage of votes.Incidentally, iPhone was voted as a top-five product by 53 per cent of survey participants.

Did Steve Jobs passing away in early October, and the arrival of iPhone 4S, in any way skew results? Perhaps. But Apple, and the man that fronted it, have proven troublesome for Nintendo's 3DS, and may also present a problem to Sony's PlayStation Vita. Whether that threat will continue into the living room, and to PlayStation and Xbox, remains to be seen.

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Pretty ironic that Apple are the biggest influence when you consider their entry into the gaming market was a bit of a fluke

**MATRIX 2** · 11-02-2011

**Thorzilla** · 11-02-2011

Sorry but pftt...Apple Pippin says hi.

**BoyBettaKnow** · 11-02-2011

The pippin never really took off though, did it?

**Inzane2050** · 11-02-2011

So Apple is the biggest influence on gaming bcuz of a survey?.. PFFFFTT! Lol

**Ghost-Rhayne** · 11-02-2011

What a joke lol.

**BoyBettaKnow** · 11-02-2011

Originally Posted by Inzane2050

So Apple is the biggest influence on gaming bcuz of a survey?.. PFFFFTT! Lol

It's only an opinion that was shared between the people in the industry at the event. Who would you say is the industries biggest influence?

For me i'd say Nintendo.

**keefy** · 11-02-2011

Even Carmack wants a piece of the IOS pie its cheaper to make games for than consoles or PC and most people have a phone with them for most of the day every day but a vita or 3DS is an additional device to carry around.

But Apple are not the huge influence this survey makes them out to be.

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http://youtu.be/hNF4qioOD1I?t=1m55s

**Inzane2050** · 11-02-2011

I definitely agree that Nintendo had the biggest influence with generation.

Also, if you think about it, making PC games can be very cheap; it just depends if you want to make Bejeweled, a flash game, or a full-fledged next gen title.

**Thorzilla** · 11-02-2011

Originally Posted by BoyBettaKnow

It's only an opinion that was shared between the people in the industry at the event. Who would you say is the industries biggest influence?

For me i'd say Nintendo.

Yup, it never really started. If anything, the greatest influence is Nintendo. They start it off and everyone else follows. Remember the DS? That thing kicked off a touch gaming generation.

**Inzane2050** · 11-02-2011

NES saved the game industry.
Nintendo 64 introduced the joysticks.
Nintendo Wii introduced AND popularized motion controlled gaming.
Nintendo Gameboy- (nuff said)
Nintendo DS- Touch Controlled gaming
Nintendo 3DS introduced glasses-less 3D gaming.

The Nintendo Wii U?? Nada

**BoyBettaKnow** · 11-02-2011

Pretty sure nothing like the Wii U has been done before with a separate screen being used in the way that Nintendo are saying.

(I'm aware few games on the PS3 allowed you to link it with the PSP (only one i know was F1:CE))

**Cyn** · 11-02-2011

Save them room in their trophy cabinet for:

"Apple cured cancer"

and

"Apple discovered the meaning of life"

**Sufi** · 11-03-2011

The Wii-U reintroduced iPad.

**dc89** · 11-05-2011

I love Apple products but this is a bit far.

I'd say they have definitely changed the game (no pun intended) with the App Store and how content finds its way to a device etc and of course the price of it, but that's it.

Nintendo have been the biggest influence on gaming ever.

**ps3freak18** · 11-09-2011

I wonder if Apple will ever get into the console market. The masses flock to them, only really makes sense for them to.

But no they shouldn't be the biggest influence. Nintendo takes that title. Gaming wouldn't be what it is today without Nintendo upping the playing field every generation in the past.

**jj03** · 11-09-2011

i hope apple don't get into the console market....see enough iphones n shit.

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**ps3freak18** · 11-09-2011

Originally Posted by jj03

i hope apple don't get into the console market....see enough iphones n shit.

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True but you know that it would sell like hotcakes because it has that apple emblem on it.

**Cybertox** · 01-24-2012

This is just ridiculous.

**F34R** · 01-28-2012

Originally Posted by ps3freak18

True but you know that it would sell like hotcakes because it has that apple emblem on it.

I doubt it. I think it'd have to bring something substantial to the market... it wouldn't sell too long on name alone.

**MjW** · 01-28-2012

Originally Posted by jj03

i hope apple don't get into the console market....see enough iphones n shit.

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There is no need for that. Gaming gets into Apple instead.

**SchaffinOSX** · 01-28-2012

I don't think Apple would enter the gaming market if they weren't going to bring something substantial to the market. I do think that Apple will become increasingly concerned with the gaming portion of their iOS, but I don't think it will manifest to the point of them releasing a console. They might expand upon their gaming services, the kinds of games their devices / computers can play, etc., but I don't see it going anywhere behind that in the near future.

In the long term, I suppose next to anything can happen.