[alexqgb]

"What seems more likely to me is the genesis of an entirely new genre, possibly synthesizing traits from both movies and games, but fundamentally not the same as either."

Not unlike the way film itself started ~1895 as a cheap emulation of stage plays, relying on familiar theatrical devices while exploring and developing its own core of language, conventions, and techniques. By 1915 it had come into its own and we called it cinema.