Famitsu’s Dream team: Japan’s movers and shakers of 2006

We’ve seen lots of stuff happen during 2006. The next-gen consoles alone got the the gaming industry at the edge of its seat. The handhelds also had their own booms, bangs, and whistles, too. There were thrills and spills, exclusives and not-so-exclusives-anymore, and lots of other gory stuff to mix into the whole brew. Of course, none of this would be possible without the movers and shakers of the gaming industry themselves.

The recent edition of Japanese magazine Famitsu published the final roundup of their biggest Japanese industry presidents. They took the presidents of Japanese companies and asked the vox populi to vote on how they each gave an impact on the industry and how much influence they held sway on the market. Here’s the final list:

1. Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata – 201 votes
2. Sony Computer Entertainment’s Ken Kutaragi – 181 votes
3. Mistwalker’s Hironobu Sakaguchi – 126 votes
4. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto – 41 votes
5. Konami’s/Kojima Productions’ Hideo Kojima – 33 votes

We’re sure you have your own thoughts and opinions about this list. We’re just reporting how things tallied up at Famitsu. It’s not much surprising – these people really are the industry’s biggest movers and shakers. As to the ranking of these five, yeah, you can say it’s contestable. But the fact still remains that, no matter how you jumble around this party of five, you’ll still end up with these guys topping the list.

We’ve seen lots of stuff happen during 2006. The next-gen consoles alone got the the gaming industry at the edge of its seat. The handhelds also had their own booms, bangs, and whistles, too. There were thrills and spills, exclusives and not-so-exclusives-anymore, and lots of other gory stuff to mix into the whole brew. Of course, none of this would be possible without the movers and shakers of the gaming industry themselves.

The recent edition of Japanese magazine Famitsu published the final roundup of their biggest Japanese industry presidents. They took the presidents of Japanese companies and asked the vox populi to vote on how they each gave an impact on the industry and how much influence they held sway on the market. Here’s the final list:

1. Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata – 201 votes
2. Sony Computer Entertainment’s Ken Kutaragi – 181 votes
3. Mistwalker’s Hironobu Sakaguchi – 126 votes
4. Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto – 41 votes
5. Konami’s/Kojima Productions’ Hideo Kojima – 33 votes

We’re sure you have your own thoughts and opinions about this list. We’re just reporting how things tallied up at Famitsu. It’s not much surprising – these people really are the industry’s biggest movers and shakers. As to the ranking of these five, yeah, you can say it’s contestable. But the fact still remains that, no matter how you jumble around this party of five, you’ll still end up with these guys topping the list.