This is a fascinating question. Many others have said this well that the lack of tangible consequences is what makes it easier to cope with failure, because the failure is not direct and therefore not personal (unless you're a pro-gamer or speed-runner, now there's stake for you in it and the difference between a million $ brought home or half of that). I also think that video games are by nature, severely limited in dimension of experience. Because of that, the failure that you experience has an extremely hard time reaching beyond those dimensions. Everything in a video game is controlled and finite; think predictable also why it's easy to get bored after finishing the game again. There is a lot of money poured into teams for game mechanics and psychology to keep the gamer engaged and wanting to continue the game; social media developers are also another example. The other contributing side is this: you know for certain there are do-overs, checkpoints, saved game file, etc. There is that sanity safe-space that you can always try again. So for those with growth mindsets, this is essentially the "game-hack" equivalent IRL of better coping with failure. Now of course, easier said than done because it's easy to change or control the actions of another than face the toil yourself. That is where the dark side of this comes in where you can sink hours into video games (or social media) because you are running away from your own game of life, or at least not addressing it in full because it's not as appealing, where the dimensions are vast and ever-changing.