Of course. By definition, they can't be. But JS games also will always be a class below Flash games, because the language is sloppy and completely interpreted at runtime. The fact that people think it'll be a replacement just shows how much money computer-illiterate business school graduates living with their parents in Bel Air still have to throw around, taking power lunches and acting like they have a freakin clue what they're talking about. I've been working for these types of people since "Bel Air" was "Oakland Hills", "HTML5" was "E-commerce", and IE 3 didn't play nicely with Netscape. But the smell of bullshit hype stay the same.