The question if video games are art or not has been pretty solved, and the question has moved on to emulation accuracy versus impacting the original experience. It&#x27;s a very tricky, subjective thing, especially in a medium that is often designed to be mass produced. 
That&#x27;s a step further away from movies where a unit is produced for a platform based around a common standard with multiple implementations, but for console games and other fine tuned implementations, it&#x27;s a tricky question.