On SimCity and that, Will Wright tends to think of his creations as toys rather than games.
'hell even some BluRay menus could be described as having "gameply."'
Which should be a pretty sure sign that "can be described as having gameplay" isn't that meaningful.
(The problem with arguing semantics on the internet is that everyone starts obsessing about technicalities. Quake, SimCity, Minecraft and Blu-ray menus, all qualify as technically being games. And so technically qualifying as being a game is clearly irrelevant to anything interesting. It is obviously not what people usually mean by "is it a game?" and such.)
'hell even some BluRay menus could be described as having "gameply."'
Which should be a pretty sure sign that "can be described as having gameplay" isn't that meaningful.
(The problem with arguing semantics on the internet is that everyone starts obsessing about technicalities. Quake, SimCity, Minecraft and Blu-ray menus, all qualify as technically being games. And so technically qualifying as being a game is clearly irrelevant to anything interesting. It is obviously not what people usually mean by "is it a game?" and such.)