For me the reason I play games is that a small guy called Link dragged me into an enormous adventure I had to play with a dictionary during the NES days. But of course it was the Wii sports of that era, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, that forced me to beg my parents to get one.
The new gamers that bought the Wii for the hype or Wii sports/Brain age/Cooking mama games will eventually come in the store and see other types of games and think, "hey that's that Zelda/Final Fantasy/FPS I've heard about, I'll give a try". And a part of them will love these games. There's the real gain for the industry.
The Wii raised the acceptance level for game devices and dragged it out of its subculture. The current popularity of "non-games" doesn't mean the old-style (call the hardcore if you will) games won't be sold to this new demographic. They need time to discover gaming, just like I started with SMB and Duck Hunt.
The future of gaming is that more people and also more kinds of people will play games. And just like people have different tastes in Music and Movies, people will play different kinds of games. The Wii is the first step into making gaming mainstream along all people.
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