Something that came to me regarding what is considered literature?

[DioShiba]

But in the end we're talking about if movies and video games can be literature. Yes they can. But that depends on what you find artistic. They qualify for it, as long as they have words (which is pretty much always), and the final decision if a game is or isn't literature is your opinion. One person says it is, the other says it isn't, they're both right.

So basically it all comes down to what people's opinion in on what they consider "literature".

Which makes sense in a way. But if I were to give a game like Heavy Rain to about "20 intelligent people" and ask them what their opinion is on the written parts of the games as a piece of literature, then what would that do? you'd have about 20 different opinions on what they think of it.