Also, at those saying that Kutaragi doesn't deserve to be there, remember this.
The playstation was sony's first console. It was also the first console to sell 100million units. It dominated the Nintendo 64 without the name brand of nintendo.
The playstation 2 was sony's second console, it also sold over 100million units, toping at 136m. It had a shelf life of 10 years, the playstation 1 had a shelf life of 11 years.

Please do not downgrade the importance of Mr Kutaragi, and don't act like the playstation wasn't as amazingly successful as it was.

Also, the Nintendo 64 and the Nintendo Gamecube, in terms of sales, are set to be bigger failures than the playstation 3. The PS3 has already outsolde the gamecube.

digitalentourage: I think most people are complaining more about him being 1st, than him being in the list.

but it was not a list of order of importance, it was just 10 people who were influential.

I would prefer the head of Naughty Dog be there. Naughty Dog are one of the only developers to have never made a game that was not a hit.

"one of the"

sony is still reaping the benefits of two generations of Nintedo Wii like dominance, while still being in here with those losses.

Wii fit isn't new back then, but it made popular.

there were a few fitness games last gen. so he wasn't "different" by announcing wii fit.

@ digitalentourage
Kutargi does belong on this list, Myomoto should be 1 though! There is zero change I would be playing video games today if I had not gotten hooked with my NES and Mario!!

@parauds
Myomoto comes out with new games every generation, he came out with Pikmin last generation. What happens at E3 when new Mario and Zelda games are not shown? The first question is always what is the status on the next Mario and Zelda games. Nintendo and Myomoto know that once we have beaten a Mario or Zelda game a few times we are ready for the next game in the series. If Myomoto spent all of his time making new ips we would not get the quality and consistency that we get from his gems. The Legend of Zelda Wind Waker was an amazing game, but people bitched and moaned about changing the graphical style of the game. When this happens Myomoto can not take to many risks with his games. This generations I will take Mario Galaxy over anything on my ps3 any day of the week!!

I stopped reading after they said Nobuo Uematsu is the "John Williams" of game music.

That title belongs to Koji Kondo, who has composed some of the most recognizable themes across any form of media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Way_of_the_Warrior_(video_game)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz0y8enFMno 

Recognizable is not the same as best, Uematsu is better than Kondo, but I agree Kondo is more influential and his songs are sticky.