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

[mibuokami]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

mibuokami said:

CGI-Quality said:

Avinash_Tyagi said:
Good, gaming is entertainment, not art

Still takes art to accomplish that (i.e.: Movies, Music, Dance etc, etc....)

Actually no, it doesn't take 'art' to accomplish entertainment, both however can co-exist within one medium comfortably, as seen in just about every other form of medium from books to movie to music.

In fact you can argue fairly convincingly that any medium that contains the former will invariably contain the later.

 Many things that are considered art are not considered entertaining by the mass market, and many things that are considered low borw by the critics are extremely popular

Now we're arguing over definition :) and in either case the argument is still valid.

One man's art is another man's entertainment, and neither is required for the other to exist but both do anyways.