You guys don't seem to realize that most of them probably aren't booing to support the PS3. I don't think any of them would mind if FF13 got a PS2-level port to Wii or a PC port. They just hate the 360, and for good reason considering the impact it and the Xbox have had on gaming as a whole. The truly sad part is these are probably the same people that associate Final Fantasy with Sony, when all the best games were on Nintendo systems.
Still, you're falling into the same fallacy a lot of multi-platform supporters do: that everyone either lives in a vacuum, or appreciates your company.
Accusing people who support MULTI-platform release of being close minded fanboys.
Half page rant about how playing on a controller either means your non-competitive,
or a mouth breathing fanboy.(I don't suppose some of us could just enjoy the comfort of a controller, and find it feals more visceral and fun, maybe theres reasons other than apathy or stupidity).
I sincerely hope no one thinks your elitest for your gated community analogy, especially since that implies that game x is YOUR game, or that you are somehow the driving force behind its existence, something that, as an avid PC gamer, is absolutly not the case. Games would not be nearly as beefy as they are today if they were living on a diet of PC gamer. PC devs nasty habit for "sytem requirements:everything that came out last month" narrowed the market big time, and even with developers like valve out there that actually set performance benchmarks instead of going after it with a giant club like Crytek, there just isn't enough juice to keep the gamer economy afloat, especially not when your games sales acount for only 10-15percent of the audience that actually wanted/played the game. So if you want to blame somone for opening the door to your imaginary gaming community, blame everyone at your next lan party for thier rampant piracy, you prolly won't falsely accuse that many.
I genuinly appologize that its the xbox currently at the helm of keeping PC games alive, it was the ps2 that made a wider range of devs take consoles more seriously, maybe someday the ps3 will come into its own and usher in the next generation of big titles that you'll see released on PC. But it won't be the throngs of pirates with terrabyte drives full of free games and porn screaming ****** at each other in a room that smells of sweat, pizza and O3(Jhonnys geForce is too overclocked). The PC will always be important to gaming, It's where it started, its where the development work happens, and the mod communities you mentioned are occasionally the life blood of full blown new releases. However, all of this would starve to death were it limited to PC gamers, or for that matter, any single platform.
Finally on price. While some people greatly dramatize, the prices you quote for your gaming rig are only good for those of us that build our own. Even then, thats still an xbox and 2 games easy. Yeah a PC does more than game, but some people just wanna play, and thier 5 year old web surfer is fine for everything else. If the PC were really the healthiest home for games Microsoft would have never seen a reason to invest in the xbox. But a market existed, and microsoft, and many software developers moved to a new home, one not yet stripped barren by """elite dudes"""
The gaming landscape speaks for itself and your ranting is that and nothing more. Theres a reason PC releases are seeing hugely intrusive DRM. The PC market is an ugly beast, so next time your playing Modern Warfare, thank the xbox/console fanboys that make the series enough of a commercial success to have the budget to be the game it is, even with all the 1337 pirates pwning with mice.
My only gripe is if I get it working, my wife is going to actually make me buy a game or two for it. 