Someone else on another website said this better than anybody ever could.
"We can complain that by making a console geared towards instant pick-up-and-play, unsophisticated gaming Nintendo have taken the gaming genre backwards, or at least hinder its progress. But what do we consider progress? There seems to be this idea that if we keep producing better iterations of physics systems, push graphics ever closer towards photo-realism, and write more involving stories, eventually there will be a tipping point and non-gamers will be convinced to...er....jump in. If only it were so. These casual gamers will always reduce the kind of games we play to childish rubbish because it involves - again in their eyes - boy's fantasies of speed and weaponry. While we reduce their idea of what games should be to childish rubbish because - in our eyes - they are simple, banal and don't carry any emotional attachment.
Are we that arrogant to presume our view of their games carries more weight than their view of ours? Probably. "I was here first," we could say. But that, in itself, just sounds like another thing a child might say. "