Elimination game: Who is the best developer?

[RenegadePhantasm]

12 Gunpei Yokoi
12 Sid Meier
12 Masahiro Sakurai

11 Shinji Mikami
11 Yuuji Horii
11 Will Wright
11 Takashi Tezuka
11 Goichi Suda
11 Fumito Ueda (+)

10 Eiji Aonuma
10 Yoshinori Kitase
10 Rieko Kodama
10 Hirohide Sugiura
10 Hiroshi Iuchi
10 To-ru Iwatani
10 Yasumi Matsuno
10 Tetsuya Mizuguchi
10 Akihiro Hino
10 Koji Igarashi

9 Keiji Inafune (-)
9 Ken Levine
9 Yuji Naka
9 Martin Hollis
9 Tim Schafer
9 Andy Gavin & Jason Rubin
9 Hideki Kamiya(++)

8 Eugene Jarvis (-)
8 Marc Pacini
8 Dustin Browder
8 Drew Karpyshyn
8 James Ohlen
8 Michael Morhaime, Allen Adham & Frank Pearce

7 Jason Jones & Alex Seropian (-)
7 Alexey Pajitnov
7 Eiji Kikuchi
7 Ted Price
7 Gregg Mayles
7 Chris Taylor

6 Kazunori Yamauchi (-)
6 John Carmack & John Romero (-)
6 Tomohiro Nishikado (-)
6 Masaya Kobayashi
6 Roberta Williams

4 Brett Sperry & Louis Castle
4 Ron Gilbert


Rules: Add 1 point to a developer, deduct 1 point from two different developers.
3 votes per day, you can use all your votes at once.
Copy and paste the list and these rules with your changes in each post.

Eliminated:

1. Jane Jensen
2. Tomonobu Itagaki
3. Gabe Newell
4. David Jaffe
5. Peter Molyneux
6. Tetsuya Nomura
7. David Crane
8. Hideo Kojima
9. Hironobu Sakaguchi
10. Yu Suzuki

Wow we've got a lot of haters, taking out all of the big names like Molyneux and Kojima just because the developers get so much credit. Jaffe too, although I don't think he's that great either. Still -6 votes is a lot of power to wield.