racketboy.com

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/02 ... ial_gamer/

"Who has been most influential person in gaming history? The late Steve Jobs. What is the product that has most influenced game development? The iPhone.

Top five people to have shaped video games:
1. Steve Jobs
2. Gabe Newell (cofounder and managing director of Valve)
3. Shigeru Miyamoto (developer of Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda)
4. Tim Berners-Lee
5. Mark Zuckerberg

Top five products to have shaped video games:
1. Apple iPhone
2. Nintendo Wii
3. Microsoft Xbox Live
4. The original Sony PlayStation
5. Valve's Steam"


Your thoughts Racketboy members?

Complete and utter tripe.

You've gotta be fucking kidding me.

What a load. Sure, the iphone has had an influence. In the past couple of years. I guess the 30 years leading up to that point are meaningless.

Its just more pointless ass kissing now that he's dead.

This actually really disgusts me. No actual video game historian, i.e. someone actually trained in the historical methods, would dare to repeat these baseless assertions. These people have no perspective.

Absolutely ridiculous... the whole thing, not just this alleged "most influential" award going out to someone who's clearly undeserving of the title. I understand some people are still paying homage to the man's life but this is a farce.

Personally, I really don't care about award ceremonies for the gaming industry in general... We, the gamers, know what's good and what's crap, and those among us who actually give a damn know who the real players in the industry are and what they have done to prove that they are the ones that really matter.

The whole list is a joke.

Mark Zuckerberg was truely an all time great who changed the face of gaming for the better.

Steve Jobs over John Carmack? lol

Nintendo Wii over the Nintendo NES? double lol