Will We See a Total Mainstream Shift in Gaming in the Future?

[theRepublic]

IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

This transformation from niche to mainstream has already started: FPS games now pretty much always have rechargeable health (L4D is one exception), it is now impossible to get stuck in Zelda games,  Dead Space got rid of its core element since it supposedly scared away the masses, Banjo-Kazooie turned into a racer in a weak attempt to broader its audience, losing all your extra lives in Mario games is impossible (maybe that's just me though), Halo 4 was made more fast paced than previous entries to mimic Call of Duty, single player games in general are adding (often) lazy and unneeded multiplayer features, etc., etc.

The future is already here.

I would say that is just you.  And me.  And other dedicated gamers.

On the other-hand, when I try to play NSMB Wii with one of my friends or my niece, they can't even make it out of World 1 before they are out of lives.