Well...
Most of your points have nothing to do with the games (apart from the controller, I don't mind either consoles effort)..

Both consoles to me have been a bit of a let-down - where are the "killer apps"? This generation has seen gaming put on the back pedestal for other agendas. This generation has seen graphics take more precedence over anything than ever before.

In any genre almost no actual gameplay progress has been made:

Half-Life
Pro Evolution 4/5/6
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
Red Alert 2 / Total Annhiliation
Total War series (admittedly Empire is the best ever, but across the genre there has been almost no progress)
Virtua Fighter 4
Gran Turismo / Sega Rally

Across all genres the only real changes have been aesthetic. In some cases even gone backwards (football games).
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 22 May 2009, 13:08, 2 replies)

I'm entirely with you on this
which is why I still have a ps2 and play nothing but burnout: revenge, GTA San Andreas, and Tony Hawks, if I ever play anything
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 22 May 2009, 16:20, closed)

I dug out GT on an impulse the other week
(still having the PS1 hooked up to the telly out of nostalgia) and f*** me, it's bobbins now compared to the likes of Forza.
it was fantastic at the time, but it definitely has been improved upon.
(tjn whizzing on the electric fence of life, Fri 22 May 2009, 20:15, closed)