"deserved to be more than a game" tells me all i need to know
the people behind this view video games as lesser
I mean, the number of games comparable to even a mildly successful TV show is rather low, and is a fairly recent phenomenon.
By most metrics, the first
Life Is Strange
sold around 3,000,000 copies. A TV show or movie which only had 3,000,000 viewers would be considered a failure.