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Originally Posted by DarthHelmet86
The question is a bit stupid really where would gaming be without Alan Turing not to mention the creator of the Atari and Commodore 64.
The conference is about the "digital games market", which if you think about it like that then they are sort of right. The AppMarket brought small games to many people digitally, same with Facebook. They didn't answer the question "Who is the biggest influence in gaming?" they answered "Who is the biggest influence in digital game markets.".
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If we take gaming as a cultural phenomenon, and not from a pure business perspective, even if we talk about digital games, Steve Jobs shouldn't be on the top spot. Of course thanks to the App Store, various categories of people started playing games, but what kind of games are we talking about? Mostly crap, as most game critics have been constantly saying.
But this poll's biggest problem is that it equals a CEO with its company (eg Steve Jobs=Apple, Zucky=Facebook). Was App Store Jobs' own vision, or the product of Apple's most briliant minds and copycats? I sincerely don't know. Too lazy to look into it.