You guys seem to act as if the PS3 and 360 are much more traditional consoles.
On the contrary, they are pretty much repackaged PCs. There are three types of major games coming out now for the PS3 and 360: FPS games, PC style RPGs, and unsurprisingly, genre crossovers that combine western RPG and FPS elements. Hardly the bastion of traditional gameplay found on previous consoles, unless the only machine you want to count is the PC. While traditional games are coming out here and there, PC gaming has dominated the console scene.
Since there is this lack of originality, the only thing people give a shit about is resolution, achievement points, and cool wallpaper art to put on the menu screen. Nerds now have moved away from gameplay discussion entirely and now have bitch fights over resolution, unlockables, and other pointless bullshit:
"Does pop up justify increasing the resolution?"
"Oh my God, I can't believe there are only 8 achievements to get in this game."
"Look! I saw that at certain moments of the game, it drops down to 55 fps!"
"OMG! There are N64-like textures on this leaf!!!"
Shut the fuck up. You guys can't claim that you are the traditional gamers when all you do is spend time scrutinizing minor graphical issues. It would be like criticizing Sonic because the background is repetitive. "Sega must be a bunch of lazy fucks. I think I even saw a moment of slowdown." You never saw this shit in the early 90s (unless it was really bad) but now if there is a slight hiccup, the sand in the vaginas of some of the "traditional gamers" is enough to resand the entire Sahara.
I'm hardly a fan of middle aged housewives dominating the Wii scene but PS3 and 360 owners are hardly qualified as gamers these days.