"That is maybe the area where I am devoting myself (the) most," he explained, saying that Nintendo was already rolling out the DS "in junior high and elementary schools in Japan starting in the new school year."
This initiative first began with the release of Wii Music in 2008, when Miyamoto visited schools and showed off the game.
When asked about his BAFTA award, he says that he feels honored. He then fielded questions about videogames being perceived as art.
"It's a great honor that my name might be listed as a fellowship member along with such a great director as Hitchcock," he said. However, Miyamoto was quick to note,"I have never said that videogames (are) an art.
Kojima said the same thing, but you have to consider they're Japanese, and things translate differently culturally. Games are just as much art as movies. Anything made by people is art yo.
I've always believed that the constant need for some people to label games as "art" has to do with their parents not "getting" videogames and telling them it's "a waste of time", so they feel they need to justify their hobby by making it into something grander than it really is.
"No, I didn't just blow off that alien's head because I thought it was fun and exciting, I did it because the alien represents the inner conflict my bald space marine faces. It represents his distant, verbally abusive step-father."
I've always believed that the constant need for some people to label games as "art" has to do with their parents not "getting" videogames and telling them it's "a waste of time", so they feel they need to justify their hobby by making it into something grander than it really is.
"No, I didn't just blow off that alien's head because I thought it was fun and exciting, I did it because the alien represents the inner conflict my bald space marine faces. It represents his distant, verbally abusive step-father."
Is there any chance at all of this thread not turning into a semantic discussion of what art is?Probably not. I don't even see why it matters. Does games being art have any relation to the enjoyment people get from them? It seems like people tend to label mostly poor-selling games as art. Something about art being unappreciated, when really the games are likely either bad, or just have a very limited appeal.
Kojima said the same thing, but you have to consider they're Japanese, and things translate differently culturally. Games are just as much art as movies. Anything made by people is art yo.
But hammers and nails could be art if they were represented in a statue.
(I hate modern art)
ever hear of Duchamp?Kojima said the same thing, but you have to consider they're Japanese, and things translate differently culturally. Games are just as much art as movies. Anything made by people is art yo.
I just took a poop, was that art? most gamers are very naive at what is art. Their under the illusion that if something makes you feel an emotion then it's art. I'm very surprised by how many want video games to be art, yet know nothing about general art. It seems gamers are trying to justify their hobbies. I'm surprise when I hear "Yo, Heavy Rain has the best story I have ever experience." Really? Never heard of Kafka, Dostoevsky or Albert Camus? That is real story telling told well and that is ART.
Too broad. Anything made by humans without a practical purpose is art. Hammers and nails aren't art.
And as they age, toys transform into art.
http://www.kcra.com/entertainment/22850174/detail.html
GAMES.
ARE.
TOYS.
