"...if anything at all, be pleased with next gen consoles cause thats actually when developers would wana upgrade core game designs because the common denominator has moved a step up." 

No. You start out this blog stating that you're not trying to attack pc gamers which is exactly what you did albeit in a more political/indirect manner. As far as that quote of yours, why should we be pleased? Pleased that developers will finally be getting out of the stone ages and start to utilize current technology again? Pleased that their new machines will implement far more pc-like architecture? Or pleased because we know the hardware inside those machines will become dated just as quickly as it did in the current console gen?

You talk at length about how developers cater to the console market, a thing we pc gamers understand far better than you obviously do, and then belittle pc gaming as having no benefit to it besides "extra shinnies" aka better graphics. What you don't seem to grasp is the freedom of pc gaming. The freedom to advance alongside technology rather than stagnate for five to seven years. What you call 'shinnies' is the natural progression of visuals, physics engines, and game design in general that comes steadily for the pc platform rather than the few and far between chunks of console cycles. Having a huge modding community making good games great and extending the life of a game several-fold through user created content is also another thing that makes the pc so wonderful. On top of that there's larger game worlds that can support far more players at once, a massive indie dev community, decades worth of games at one's fingertips without the worry of backwards compatibility, cheaper games, less restrictions, so on and so forth. 

Consoles make things easy. Buy a box, turn on box, put disc in box - done. That's why there are so many console gamers out there. It's gaming made simple, but simple doesn't always mean better. When I get on my pc soapbox it's not to try to convert people over, but rather correct their misconceptions of pc gaming, like yours, that makes it seem that all we care about is graphics. I know this won't change anything in the ongoing war of pc vs consoles, and this was crazy wordy but I just wanted to put down my opinion on the matter. 

Metro will be godly. The game looks brilliant, and if it's purely story driven without the filler (something the first metro did quite well) I'm totally on-board. 

Grats EA. You deserve it :)

Game-wise, they're cool. However, I detest Activision. Blizzard and Activision are pretty cozy and thus I'm not too fond of them at least in that respect.  

I use to believe the exact opposite until I gave the mouse/keyboard and pc gaming a fair shake. There's really no comparison however the controller does have its uses. Playing any of the AC or Batman games on a keyboard/mouse is a no go for me, so I still use a 360 controller on occasion. 

Doesn't matter. They know now and have a number of years to utilize it. 

DICE

EA has always been this way. Hated them when I was a kid and nothing has changed since except they now have more ways to exploit consumers. It's the same as when Activision started charging $15 for map packs. For every one person 'protesting' 10 more will shell out for their games/dlc. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. 

Consolidation. 

Nintendo. Outside of their first-party games they are irrelevant, and although they brought gaming back from the brink many years ago, they've done little to advance it since.