Video games are the exact same thing as architecture.
An engineering discipline intended for short-term consumption which can, if stars align, produce genuine art.

It also involves lots of copying, building by template, cutting corners from concept art to realisation, defacing with wide public support, et cetera.

Do you consider Stalinist commie blocks art? Fuck no.
A shopping mall is also just a fucking shopping mall. A Copy-pasted box with maximised shopping space.
But Notre Dame is a work of art. So is the Sydney Opera House or Tokyo Big Sight.

FF7 is a work of art. FF7 Remastered is a corporate construction job to build a by-the-numbers high rise in its place.