Bolivar, you're nuts. Mouse/Keyboard is a far better input device for shooters than a controller.

I'm not sure what exactly the future of consoles is.

I want consoles to go away, presonally. I'm sick of the fanboy arguments, sick of the restrictions, sick of the exclusivity war.

I like playing with the PC. With the exception of handhelds, it's my favorite console. So I get my games on PC. Why does this exclude me from the rest of the gaming community? Why can't I play Mass Effect 3 alongside gamers using an XBox 360 or a PS3? The games are functionally identical.

Why isn't a game console just a media platform? We never get DVDs that only play on Sony DVD players, or anything like that. We don't get a computer that can't link to all of the internet.

Consoles are getting more and more PC like in terms of their capabilities, yet they are still living in a world before PCs existed. Their views of how games have to be developed, how they can be sold and marketed, is dragging down the industry.

You can go out, buy a game, and have it work on your PC, your Mac, a Linux system, or practically any other OS out there. Yet consoles won't recognize it. Why not? What is a PS3 except a graphical and gameplay focused computer with peripherals, a customized OS, and a Blu-Ray player?