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Originally Posted by DarkMaster

He said this a long time ago, Hideo Kojima agrees with him.

They aren't art, they are a product. Artists work on video games, yes. The skills needed to developing certain aspects of video games are, in fact, artistic. But these artists work for a client who decides what they create, and their creative vision is limited to various bounderies, such as deadlines, budgets, platform, and many other things.

Everything you just said could also be applied to movies. But few people would argue that (at least some movies) are art.