I know I'm too late, but if you're still interested in opinions, my suggestion is similar to what I think a couple of people already said before: if you want to introduce your toddler to an activity, do it with reading instead of gaming. The reason is very simple: in a scenario where your child is not introduced to any hobbie whatsoever, it's way, way, WAY much more likely that he gets into gaming than into reading, so introducing him to gaming is kind of redundant, because that's almost 100% guaranteed to happen sooner or later - and I'd say sooner rather than later.
If you introduce him to reading, however, you'll be giving him a very nice hobbie that wouldn't otherwise grow on him as easily as video games. In fact, even if you introduce him to reading, I'd say it's quite possible that he just stop doing it anyway at some point in his life. But it's still worth trying, because the more hobbies the merrier, in my opinion, and reading has the potential to be a particularly enriching one. Also, I need as many future customers as I can in case I ever get to publish a book.
What I'd do is looking for a moment of the day to be alone with him, reading him some book that is appropriate to his age (maybe some with cute, colorful drawings that he can watch while you read the story), and when he can read himself, do the same thing, but the other way around: he reading and you listening, just being there with him and maybe reacting to what is happening in his book (or something like that; I'm never gonna have kids, so I actually don't know what's the best way to proceed with them). But anyway, my point is that, by the time he grows up, reading could have become a habit that he will have very fond memories of, instead of a tedious activity that he's forced to do as some boring school task.
And at the same time, more probably than not, he will also be getting into gaming, and the two of you will be spending some quality time and sharing memories playing games too. Double win!
I'm mostly a lurker now.
