The increasing popularity of games may hurt games as an art.

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@Reasonable: You're not really disagreeing with me.

You did read something wrong, the great artist that died before getting recognised as great artist, became commercially successful before they were seen as great artists. Even if the artist died, they production kept living.
The point is, anyone can be an artist, but in order to get recognition as one, you need to have success commercially. This, naturally, doesn't mean that everything commercially successful would be art.

For the videogames as art, if a videogame is art, it needs to be art with the characteristics of a videogame.