Molyneux: That bastard Steve Jobs changed my life forever

Peter Molyneux has praised the way in which Steve Jobs changed the industry with Apple, which eventually inspired him to leave Microsoft and form his own company 22Cans.

Speaking at Mobile Entertainment’s Top 50 Mobile Innovators party, Molyneux said while figures of GTA V potentially achieving $1 billion in its first month sound impressive, mobile companies like Supercell were even more outstanding, generating between $3m-to-$5m a day 18 months after launch.

"There is nothing more exciting than games and entertaining people. All we want in the games industry is five minutes of people's lives and then the ultimate goal is to take that five minutes and make a memory that lasts a lifetime.

"Apple and Google have done a wonderful job of giving the world a device that means that games can be in everybody's hands.

"The newly released Grand Theft Auto V is a game that's everywhere, you can hardly avoid it. It will achieve around $1 billion in revenue on consoles in just one month.

"Sounds impressive, doesn't it? No. That's not impressive.

"What is outstandingly impressive is the success of mobile companies like Supercell, who has released games including Hay Day and Clash of Clans. Those games, which were released 18 months ago, are achieving revenue between $3 million and $5 million each day. That is impressive."

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"Or tapping a cube... that's impressive!"

This Peter Molyneux sure knows what he is talking about!

Excellently done Mr. Molyneux. Now we can stop with GTA V love and start playing GAT V.

Will see how Godus will sell :p him already lyed a lot from kickstarter start.

How so? I haven't really been paying attention to it.

Why do we even listen to this self absorbed clown anymore?

no mr. molyneux, it is impressive to get probably above 1 billion in revenue in one week for a game which can only sell on two devices which sold ~160m combined and without sucking out the customer with purchasable goods so that some addicted will pay thousands of bucks in their mobile game just to get the new green costume or to build the building faster. that's a way of taking advantage of one of a big problem many humans have - to get addicted to something so much that they can't stop thrwoing money on it.

the success of some mobile games is obviously also impressive...

"There is nothing more exciting than games and entertaining people. All we want in the games industry is five minutes of people's lives and then the ultimate goal is to take that five minutes and make a memory that lasts a lifetime.


More like a memory that will last for a few seconds.

Pff GTA 5 is going to be remembered 200 years from now as a work of sublime visual literature. 

I don't even know what to say. I bet if one of his games managed even a fraction of that, he'd find it as impressive as hell.