Sony’s Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes Weigh in on Whether Video Games are Art or Not

The question “are video games art?” became a heated topic of discussion after Roger Ebert denied the artistic nature of our hobby a long time ago. Yet, it keeps resurfacing here and there once in a while.

Today that question was answered over Twitter by two of the front men of soon-to-be Sony Interactive Entertainment, Shuhei Yoshida and Adam Boyes. Interestingly, their answers are quite different from each other.

@JimmyRowe1994 @yosp nobody can "officially" designate anything as art… It's always going to be a personal opinion. I think they are art.

— Adam Boyes (@amboyes) March 6, 2016

@amboyes @JimmyRowe1994 some games are artistic, others not so much

— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) March 6, 2016

Personally, I hold no doubt that video games are art. Of course, your mileage may vary on this. What is your answer?