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Not all of them are stupid? Or some of them understand more about gaming then just the digital downloads and app markets they are making games for?

Not all games on the iPhone/pods/pads are just crud some are rather good. I had a great Zedla style RPG that was tons of fun to play. I don't think Steve should be anywhere on this list, but naming one thing that made a big change to gaming is a bit hard. There are so many things that made big changes and from different peoples perspectives Steve has done so (Or at least apple).

Steve Jobs? Yeah sure, if it were not for Ralph Baer, we'd have no such thing as a console or video game. If it weren't for Neumann János, we wouldn't have fully electronic computers which are programmable to do more then one thing in the first place :p

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Originally Posted by DarthHelmet86 (Post 436210)

Japo the way the news reports are done it makes it clear that they aren't talking about normal gaming. But digital methods of getting games to people. It makes sense when you think about who they voted for, Jobs for the Appmarket, Valve for steam and Micorsoft for Xbox live.

"London Games Conference is focused on the digital games market," "GameStop and Valve, plus talks delivered by Sega, OnLive and PopCap"

A lot of the people there are people who deal in online methods of getting games to people. They thought about the question in a way we aren't, not gaming as a whole but just getting games to people digitally. Not saying they are right just that they are thinking about this in a different way to us.

OK, now I get your/their meaning. But if they're using the word "digital" as a synonym of "online", you shouldn't follow their example. :P Floppies were digital too; punchcards were digital; a lot of electronic chips in your car, washing machine, etc. are digital. Of course the Internet is digital as well.