While I don't agree specifically with what this guy is saying, I do agree with his overarching concept.  

What Nintendo achieved with DS and Wii (and MS later with Kinect) Apple and Facebook are, by and large, stealing away.

What chance there is to hold onto this market is related to creating novel experiences that you can't get on your tablet / smartphone / laptop like Wii and Kinect offers.    Nintendo for reasons beyond me are leaving a lucrative market they created (motion gaming) to go back to a modified standard controller.   If Sony & MS follow suit, then I think the market will lose all the progress that the last two generations made in gaining a wider base and revert back to just gaming enthusiasts.   A  market that probably cannot sustain itself at the level that it's enjoyed for the last two generations.   Especially if Apple continues to steal 'mid-core' gamers.

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/04/alt-text-gaming-consoles/

IF gaming was reverted back to just gaming enthusiasts, I will once more be at peace with the world.

Mid core gamers? No such thing. You're either casual, or an enthusiast. I'd be totally fine with Apple taking all the angry bird and farmville playing people out of the damn industry.

I wouldn't mind! But the success of Kinect and the success of Call of Duty tells a different story.
These sales are driven my the casual market.

Ahhhh! You!

OT: No. Simply no. It might go back to being no "casual" players, but it is largely accepted now, unlike it used to be. (You used to be a "nerd" if you played VG, it's not like that anymore and I doubt ut'll ever go back that way.)

I'm not too far behind you here but the real enemy of good games is the diluting and dumbing down of enthusiasts games. Casual fare for casual's sake is fine, applying the same recipe and mindset to mainstream gaming is not, in my humble opinion.

Let's be honest: the only people who genuinely believe this are Zynga employees. The iPhone cannot recreate an experience like Mario Kart Wii, or Halo Reach, or God of War III, or Mass Effect (though it can certainly handle three different colours I suppose).

There are two different kinds of gaming and those two kinds will always exist. Perhaps iOS and Android have the casual market cornered, but there will always be people interested in deeper games, and that doesn't make them nerds.

No, they are not. Just because there is a new controller (which also has a gyroscope and accelerometer...) that doesn't mean that Nintendo are leaving motion control gaming. As seen in the trailer from last year's E3 you will even be able to use the new controller in conjunction with Wii remotes. Nintendo will release a new Wii Sports and other best selling motion control games and you know it.

Besides, recent rumors even suggest that you initially won't be able to play multiplayer without a Wii remote unless you share the same "modified standard controller". Sure there is the classic controller, but you still need the Wii remote to plug it in.

Yeah I agree with you. If they could both coexist without merging together than everything would be fine. But that simply isn't the case, the industry will always try to reach out and grab those casual players. More people=more money. Money is money regardless of who it is from.

If Apple can take the casuals away, and the gaming industry stops trying to cater to them, then I say it's for the better.