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TWRoO on 04 November 2011
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bobgamez said:
TWRoO said:

In terms of the current influence on the gaming industry as whole I would agree apple is huge... The iPhone has probably brought more new people into video games than the Wii, PS3, 360, DS or PSP... in fact discounting the DS it's probably more than the other 4 combined. It has also ripped quite a few casual gamers away from the occasional browser flash game. People will sit at a desktop computer with their browser open but playing games on their iPhone (or other smart phone, but again without the iPhone the smart phone market wouldn't be anything like it is today)

In terms of overall influence though, i agree apple is dwarfed by Nintendo and Sony, and should also come behind Microsoft and Sega, and probably Atari as well.

EDIT: looking at the OP again, it seems the top results are about hardware (iPhone vs. Wii etc)... While it seems very skewed in favour of the iPhone, I would say it has had a bigger influence on gaming than most other single pieces of hardware... the other contenders being Atari 2600, NES, Gameboy and DS (Wii and PS1 following behind)

The second list though doesn't make much sense to me, Steve Jobs the man has certainly not influenced gaming as much as Miyamoto... Even if Jobs personally developed/invented the iPhone and it's app store, which I would guess is not the case.

so your saying, the guys that made the first game bases like the atari 2600 and nes, didn't influence as much? are you on crack? He just changed the distribution a bit, big whoop. We had that already on xboxlive, psn, and even wii.

Perhaps you don't understand what influence can mean, as I mentioned at the start of my post, the iPhone has probably brought more people into gaming than any single 7th gen hardware device, Wii and DS being the only close rivals.... Including historical hardware I did not say the iPhone has had a bigger influence than Atari/NES etc, but that it has had a bigger influence than most other hardware devices: 2600, NES, Gameboy and DS being probably the only 4 that influenced more.

I don't agree with the results in the survey, they are clearly very apple-centric, but you can't deny the iPhone's influence on the gaming market. It doesn't just mean having games on a phone (you seriously brought up 90s phone versions of snake? that's  like bringing up minesweeper in a best selling games discussion) or the way the games are distributed.... PS2 games were distributed in the same way PS1 was, doesn't mean it didn't influence gaming.

And I certainly don't think Steve jobs alone made any big contribution... as I said, even if he alone created the iPhone and app-store he would be in the lower end of the top 10 people to influence gaming for me... but as he isn't solely responsible for them he probably wouldn't make the top 20.