This is going to really blow your mind, alter your entire perception of reality. Get this: the reason why hermits and consolites can't seem to co-exist peacefully is simple...
Control scheme.
I haven't gamed heavily on the PC since the days of Full Throttle, Duke Nukem, and Ages of The Empires II. Since then, I've become not only acquainted, but TRAINED to play with a gamepad. So even though I just upgraded my PC, started playing games like CounterStrike, Left4Dead and FEAR 2 with KB/M...I did not get engaged. Retraining myself on the KB/M was just...too annoying. Too many buttons...I felt like I was going to accidentally hit the wrong key and that my mouse was too scattershot. So I did what the logical person would do. I went out and got a gamepad (the good news is it also works for my PS3). BUTTTTTT...I then had to reconfigure the buttons and some of the buttons that I wanted to use due to feeling intuitive just did not work. Sure you can get profiles for games but its just one more extra thing.
Now I'm not that narrowminded to think PC gamers have the same difficulty when trying to get into console games. So they often feign interest in a Wii due to the somewhat similar mouselike control scheme. I've been in forums where a PC gamer buys a PS3 to play KZ2 and complains about the gamepad and the sticks and how it turns them off.
The point is this...all the platforms have good games (except for the Wii), and its not a matter of quality titles or free online this or free achievements that...its a matter of control preference.
The sooner we gamers can realize this the sooner we can work towards a better understanding of the "other" gamer.
shsonline
Hmmm, I'm the complete opposite. I've been playing PC games since Doom, which got me into PC gaming from a NES background. I've played many FPSs over the years, and when my wife got me a 360, my experience with the controller was pure frustration. I've gotten the hang of it now, but I still feel like a cripple from time to time ("man, with my KB/M I wouldn't even have to think to make that shot"). I enjoy both my PC and console now, so maybe getting along starts from the inside? 
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