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Steve Jobs and the iPhone voted biggest influences in video game industry

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Steve Jobs and the iPhone voted biggest influences in video game industry
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According to the 1,000 video game industry workers who recently filled out a London Games Conference survey, Steve Jobs and the iPhone have been the biggest influences in the gaming field.

That puts Jobs - who received 26 per cent of the vote - ahead of Valve's Gabe Newell (16 per cent), Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto (seven per cent), Tim Berners-Lee (four per cent), and Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg (three per cent).

Product-wise, the iPhone (17 per cent) managed to topple Nintendo's motion-controlled Wii (seven per cent), Microsoft's Xbox Live service (three per cent), Sony's rather excellent PSone (three per cent), and online distribution platform Steam (two per cent).

46 per cent of all those polled in this survey included Steve Jobs somewhere in their top five influences, with 53 per cent including the iPhone.

Take that, Mario.

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Anthony Usher
Anthony Usher
Anthony is a Liverpool, UK-based writer who fell in love with gaming while playing Super Mario World on his SNES back in the early '90s. When he isn't busy grooming his beard, you can find him replaying Resident Evil or Final Fantasy VII for the umpteenth time. Aside from gaming, Anthony likes hiking, MMA, and pretending he’s a Viking.