Sport is a term that is now used in a much broader sense, and video games are suitable for mass monitoring, Pardo said in a statement to the BBC, adding that professional e-sport events currently attract audience of millions.

Recentl final held in Seoul, South Korea, was monitored by 40,000 people who filled the entire stadium, while far more of them watched the event on the Internet, or at prearranged meeting places all around the world.

"There's a very good argument for e-sports being in the Olympics," said Pardo, who was also lead designer on Starcraft: Brood War, a game often credited with kickstarting the e-sports phenomenon.

"I think the way that you look at e-sports is that it's a very competitive skillset and you look at these professional gamers and the reflexes are lightning quick and their having to make very quick decisions on the fly," he noted, adding that he was aware that video games will be faced with the difficult cultural battle.

"That starts getting into how you define sport," he said.

"If you want to define sport as something that takes a lot of physical exertion, then it's hard to argue that videogames should be a sport, but at the same time, when I'm looking at things that are already in the Olympics, I start questioning the definition," explained Pardo.

The introduction of some discipline as an Olympic sport is a very long process, and since the International Olympic Committee limited number of sports at the Olympics, it has almost become a "mission impossible".

For example, chess is a sport that has long been waiting for inclusion among Olympic sports, but the IOC stubbornly refuses it, claiming that it is a "mental sport" which has no place in the Olympics.

Through history, interest in some sports has been declining, while some other sports managed to engross the attention of the general public. E-sport is now in its full expansion, but it still remains to be seen whether it could get its place at the Olympics.

See the video below from 2014 World Championship and judge yourself whether the E-sport deserves to be at the Olympics: