Games are not Art

HMMMMMMM....

Coming from the person who's virtually the Gaming Industry Guru, Master, Virtuoso ( or whatever title those people that make dictionaries decide to add onto the list)...it's strange to hear that games are not art.

Kojima-Sensei, I do agree with you in one aspect: that which relates to many, is not art. Art is at its very core, a relationship between a person and the object that he or she is interacting with. 100 people pass by a painting, and if 1 person stops and gazes at it, that's art right there.

Well...I also do think that such a special and unique relationship can't just be the definition of art.

Video games are art.

OR, the style of interaction between gamer and game is art.

It's that articstic brilliance of being able to lure the gamer to play for hours on a game, only to be hit by a huge plot twist, that makes video games not just a medium of entertainment but a pure living art.

Well yes...video games have to reach out to the masses. But that can't hinder the experience of each individual gamer to not be called art. And that's something that I want to achieve too:
Creating a story that reaches out, yet keeping itself pure just for that one person...you.
Whatever your views may be Kojima-Sensei, you sure are doing one brilliant job.

Create art.