Steve Jobs named most influential person in gaming!

[GryeDor]

AVGN and even the Irate Gamer have had more influence in gaming than Jobs.

Whoa. Now we're going over board.

AVGN...

while i wrote that largely to be comical and get exactly that kind of reaction, i'd still see them on a list higher than jobs

[KDub]

Bull shit

[Pulsar_t]

You know what'd be awesome? To turn down such an "honour" if indeed it's rationally undeserved. I don't see that douche Zuckerberg doing anything of the sort though

[o.pwuaioc]

I can see the PlayStation being one of the influential products as it really brought the mainstream into gaming, however, the rest of the list is, as Jobs would say, "complete shit".

I seriously think this is a myth. All of my friends knew about Genesis and SNES. Ronald Reagan called Jeffrey R. Yee to congratulate him on a high score back in 1982. Ever since the launch of Space Invaders, games have been mainstream.

No, those aren't the opinions of mere fervid fanbois; they're the considered conclusions of 1,000 gaming-industry executives surveyed in the run-up to next week's London Games Conference.

I completely agree with this list. It is well thought out and insightful. Not sure why you all disagree.

Cheers, industry executives!

FTFY.

I will agree with 2, 3, and 4. For those that dont know, Tim Berners-Lee created the internet before Al Gore, and hosted the first webserver.

I still don't think that "inventing" the internet counts. As fvgazi mentioned, that'd be like declaring the person who invented paper as the most significant contributor to internet.

[Yancakes]

This is what happens when non-gaming publications publish an article about gaming. It's so far off base that it's a joke, but it's no less ignorant than my local papers when they publish game reviews (most of which are just for Madden or Halo, anyways).

[J T]

I'm tempted to click the link, but this is a troll list. Surely nobody believes this and they are just trying to get clicks on their site from the inevitable nerd rage that would follow such a crazy list.

[Inazuma]

It would have been nice if someone who actually knew anything about video games wrote the list.

Steve Jobs may be the most influential person in casual gaming, but nothing more than that. Honestly, I believe that he did more harm than good to video games.

[noiseredux]

I believe that he did more harm than good to video games.

how?

[Ack]

I believe that he did more harm than good to video games.

how?

Ever play a Pippin?

[noiseredux]

Ever play a Pippin?

lol. No, but that's a bad console that did NOTHING to the video game landscape.

(I also think Jobs had nothing to do with it).