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London Games Conference votes Apple biggest influence to gaming

Anyone attend the London Games Conference? Big Event held in London, lots of really great guys talking about the games their developing and a few new bits of hardware are shown off. During the conference, 1000 video game industry professionals were given a survey to fill out about gaming and it's influence over the medium. Guess who came out on top?



Yes, that's right the final outcome for the survey was 17% for the iPhone when regarding the most influential platform, pushing other classic gen consoles in the dust like Wii (7%), PS1 (3%) or Steam (2%). Of course, my bias is that I grew up with a lot of the above platforms, that and I do not own a smartphone.

When discussing the most influential person to gaming, Apple won again, with the recently deceased Steve Jobs coming out on top with 26%. Jobs was up against Valve pioneer Gabe Newell (who got 16%), Nintendo Mastermind Shigeru Miyamoto (7%) Gaming God Tim Berners Lee (4%) and Facebook Demi-God Zuckerberg (3%). How did people like Will Wright and Nolan Bushell not get a mention on this list? I guess you gotta go with what you got and what London got was a lot of people who want to be developing for Apple's little bit of magic.

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