Who is the greatest genius out of these 3?

[Fantastische Hure]

Akira Toriyama or Satoshi Tajiri or Shigeru Miyamoto?

Goooooooooooooooo!!!

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Obviously not in an intellectual or book-intelligence kind-of way, because if so AT most likely wouldn't even be in this conversation.

 

[Papasmurf]

Me obviously

 

[Sovran Nila]

Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, or Zelda...

Wow... This is extremely difficult to answer.

I want to believe Zelda had a bigger impact in the grand scheme of things, though.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Mario too. In-fact Shigeru Miyamoto is Satoshi Tajiri's mentor/senpai, so that could count too toward the result.

 

[Yoshi]

Shigeru Miyamoto > Akira Toriyama > Satoshi Tajiri

Dragon Ball is on the same level of quality as Mario and Pokemon, but Zelda is to Mario and Pokemon what One Piece is to Dragon Ball.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

How do you know Zelda & Mario inspired Pokemon (I don't think so directly anyway). Of-course he was mentored by the creator though, so there sure might be some influence but not directly.

Akira Toriyama also has designing credits for Dragon-Quest & Chrono-Trigger, but those are only designing credits so nothing that much all things considered (Dragon-Quest also looks too similar to DragonBall in that regard anyway).

 

[Yoshi]

What I mean to say is this...

Zelda = One Piece >>> Mario = Pokemon = Dragon Ball

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Zelda is not that popular in Japan. In what countries/continents is Zelda popular in compared to not popular in? Pokemon is popular everywhere.

That is if you talk about success of-course, since genius =/= success.

 

[Sovran Nila]

Mario too. In-fact Shigeru Miyamoto is Satoshi Tajiri's mentor/senpai, so that could count too toward the result.

Hmm, interesting. In my mind, Mario didn't even come up... I don't know whether it's subjective or objective, however, Zelda seems more prominent, to me at least. I must associate Miyamoto only with Zelda.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

I thought Mario was the one work synonymous with Shigeru Miyamoto.

 

[Sovran Nila]

I thought Mario was the one work synonymous with Shigeru Miyamoto.

I hold the Zelda franchise very dear to my heart. I don't really care for Mario much. Then, the answer is that this is subjective, for me.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

But either-way having both Zelda & Mario to him just proves his genius even more.

 

[Sovran Nila]

Miyamoto wins, then.

Mods, please close this thread, as the verdict is final.

 

[Kyo]

How are you comparing games to a manga like Dragon Ball
And yeah Miyamoto is pretty synonymous with Mario, always has been

 

[Fantastische Hure]

I didn't compare games & manga. I compared the people behind them.

 

[Sovran Nila]

How are you comparing games to a manga like Dragon Ball
And yeah Miyamoto is pretty synonymous with Mario, always has been

I was looking at it from the perspective of impact on the world. In my opinion, I believe the Zelda franchise had a bigger impact on the world than the Dragon Ball franchise. I love both franchises to death, though.

 

[Kyo]

I didn't compare games & manga. I compared the people behind them.

Sure, but in order to do that you'd have to compare the results of their work output, which are games and manga.

I was looking at it from the perspective of impact on the world. In my opinion, I believe the Zelda franchise had a bigger impact on the world than the Dragon Ball franchise. I love both franchises to death, though.

That's one good way to look at it.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

And which of their works had greater impact on the world and as they intended. Who is a greater master behind what they did? Maybe look at it in those ways or any way you see fit.

 

[Kyo]

And which of their works had greater impact on the world and as they intended. Who is a greater master behind what they did? Maybe look at it in those ways or any way you see fit.

In that case it's

Spoiler

me, obviously