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Well, just like movies and painting and books, they're not all art, some are "products" or whatever...

The only person who can say if the person who made it, did they feel some inspiration? or were the goals purely mercantiles? The people who do the concept art will most likely tell you games are art, however the guy coding the low latency input routines will probably tell you it's more aking to engineering... 

Well, for sure the micro-transaction based games are not more art than the slot machines at the casino... but that's a different topic.