Gamer elitists, why do these people dump on other genres and their fans, like shooters or kinect titles? Where does it come from? What do they gain?

[Areym]

Because shooters like CoD are driving the industry towards the wrong place and making developers think that more of the same should be the standard, ignoring innovation, experimentation and risk-taking at all cost for the all mighty dollar.

Kinect is just self-explanatory