Actually the reference to young men playing video games presumably in their mothers' basements is a misrepresentation of the video game market in Canada and around the world. The typical gamer in raw numbers is a woman over age 50. Casual and social games dominate the market. So the young, intense gamer on a console is a big part of the market, but so is everybody else.
The video game market, like the Internet, is now occupied by human beings, writ large. And so it's not simply a specialist group or a tiny elite, it's everybody. The people who bought VIC-20s in the 80s keep playing games as they get older. They don't stop. The game industry is everybody.