A suvey was completed by a thousand industry attendees at the London Games Conference. In a baffling turn of events though the iPhone was voted the product to have the largest influence on the gaming industry, beating out the Wii, Xbox Live, PS1 and Steam. Steves Jobs was also voted the most influential person, taking the top spot from Gabe Newell and Shigeru Miyamoto.

 

My say to this is that this is total nonsense. Either those people have never played a real gamng console in their lives, or they just don't know a good gaming console when they see it. I mean sure the iPhone has made gaming cheaper and a little more widespread. but to say that it's the best out of all other consoles? that's a bit ridiculous to say the least. What i'm saying is, Apple devices have somewhat made a good influenc eon gaming, but it was never the biggest influnce. That spot mainly goes to Nintendo since they pretty much started the gaming industy with the NES and introducing us to controllers and whatnot. it was Nintendo that started it all. With Jump Man (which was what they called mario before they gave him the name "Mario"), Donkey Kong, Mario Kart, and Zelda.

I have a hard time thinking that Jobs had that much of an influence over it. He certainly helped design the thing, but its mostly the 3rd party developers and the generally increasing affordability and popularity of multimedia phones that drove the device's success, and made it more than simply a buffed up iPod touch.

 

I could certainly be wrong, but that's just how I feel it happened.

Keywords: iPhone, largest, influence, gaming, industry.

 

My response: I laughed.

What is this world coming to?

 

Why didn't they get real gamers to vote???

I think the people that voted were trying to get at was the iPhone brought more people into the gaming industry. And though most of them are casual gamers that just play those small apps, it still creates an audience who maybe weren't willing to buy a console just for games, but are now more into playing games from having an iphone.

 

But Nintendo still did the touch screen gaming first

I think the people that voted were trying to get at was the iPhone brought more people into the gaming industry. And though most of them are casual gamers that just play those small apps, it still creates an audience who maybe weren't willing to buy a console just for games, but are now more into playing games from having an iphone.

 

But Nintendo still did the touch screen gaming first

 

Actually Tiger electronics did it first.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com

Actually Tiger electronics did it first.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game.com

 

Wow, so retro. Maybe I should say Nintendo was the first to do is successfully.

Nintendo and atari truly deserves that spot. We might not have videogames if it wasnt for those companies.

Saw this on 3dsblog. I laughed. I mean, they did influence it, but Nintendo seriously deserves that spot. Heck, the only one who could deny that Nintendo deserves it are the most blatantly blind fanboys. Even if you hate Nintendo, you cannot deny their influence on the video game industry.

 

But whatever, it is a poll, and a poll doesn't really show the majority's feelings. Maybe they just got a lot of people who had never actually gamed except on their iPhone, iPods, or iPads. Or they just had a crap ton of Apple fanboys.

The largest influence on the gaming industry is APPLE???!!! :blink:

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I say YES http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/sleep.png but not for good reasons. They're hurting this industry by devaluing games with their 99 cent store. They've influenced their customers into thinking all games should be cheap dispite how much work and quailty the developer put into making it. The price for some games should be determined by the amount of content and quailty not be priced for a cheap 99 cents just so it can compete with other 99 cent games on the store.

Keywords: iPhone, largest, influence, gaming, industry.

 

My response: I laughed.

 

Yeah, that's my response as well.

Aaaaaand I call bulls**t.

 

Sure, the iPhone brought hundreds of thousands, if not MILLIONS of people, into gaming. That's good. But the iPhone being the most influencial part of gaming history is absolute, complete crap.

 

The most influencial piece of gaming history, easily, would have to be the NES. That little piece of hardware literally saved gaming from it's looming death. The voters are probably people who thought Angry Birds is a revolutionary game.

I'm guessing those "attendees" were really Apple shareholders. Or kids. Or both.

The largest influence on the gaming industry is APPLE???!!! :blink:

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I say YES http://kh13.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/default/sleep.png but not for good reasons. They're hurting this industry by devaluing games with their 99 cent store. They've influenced their customers into thinking all games should be cheap dispite how much work and quailty the developer put into making it. The price for some games should be determined by the amount of content and quailty not be priced for a cheap 99 cents just so it can compete with other 99 cent games on the store.

 

I agree with this SO much.

I'm trying to get into this industry, but things like this ensure it's not financially viable.