Steve Jobs and the iPhone voted biggest influences in video game industry
Pick of the bunch
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.
Eurogamer