“mainstream hardcore gamer” is about the most pretentious term I have ever heard gamers come up for themselves to try and make themselves sound superior. Particularly considering mainstream and hardcore are effectively antonyms.
And of course the Wii came to mind when coming up with control methods for modern VR. Nintendo did the interface successfully, and VR is home to a lot of motion based games that are often even simpler than Wii Sports, but people have fun with them in the same way as with the Wii. While some are saying “VR is more than just motion controls” not wanting to score Nintendo the credit, the motion controls they use still originated with the Wii, and Wii itself was a lot more than motion controls as well - while Nintendo had been experimenting with multi-purpose controllers since the N64 (d-pad and analog modes), none of the home consoles balanced it out between the multiple interface methods as the Wii did; you can bet VR devs have looked at that.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
