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Migration flags should be more general than "questions about computer-based games"

Recently, I flagged a question about a console game (The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker) as off-topic for this site. However, I noticed that the flags I had to choose from were as follows:

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Both flags say that they are for questions about "computer-based games". However in this case the question wasn't about a computer-based game, but rather a console-based game. So technically the flag wasn't the right one to use.

Arqade and Game Development Stack Exchange don't limit themselves to just computer-based games. Given that this is the case, and that we may from time to time need to migrate console-based game questions, I think that the flag ought to be broadened to something more general that encompasses console-based games. I'd like to suggest the following alternative:

  • Questions about video games, including video games that are roleplaying games...

I like this one because it is a simple term that, according to Wiktionary, encompasses both computer-based and console-based games. Other options might be:

  • Questions about computer-based and console-based games, including computer-based and console-based roleplaying games...
  • Questions about non-tabletop games, including computer-based and console-based roleplaying games...

Is this something that we might be able to change?

(Also while we're at it, the first flag does not have a comma before the "but", but the second one does. They should be consistent).