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Elite Dangerous can't be played on a console gamepad, as this article sums up everything with a page dedicated to every control system:
Elite: Dangerous Guide > Game Guide > Controls
So long as the console gamepad is the default device for the console industry, it's simply a stagnant one.

10 years old! What, are you playing games on some Athlon II with 2GB of RAM and can't play anything newer?

How is this relevant to the fact that console gamepads can't run the game and that therefore the genre on consoles is primitive and unable to catch up with standards from 10 years ago (the standard of this game)?

Not only that, it was a Star Wars game intended for mass appeal and designed to be played without extra peripherals since most PC owners didn't and still don't own joysticks/HOTAS

The Microsoft joystick was widespread and cheap, and most TIE Fighter audiences then had joysticks for it.

And again, Tie Fighter isn't a "sim".

I'll take the words of the industry that labeled it as such as well as common sense, rather than some random guy, thank you.

I just pointed out several games on console that use HOTAS.

You pointed a bunch of games of which half have less mechanics than TIE Fighter itself, or which can't be run on a console gamepad.
What PC gamers are divided into, and what the platform is capable of advancing because it doesn't have the limited default input device like a console controller, are two different things.
This is not about whether i'm elite or you think you are elite, that's just your own mental conjuration.
This is about the fact that consoles come with a by-default shitty gamepad and developers on consoles will create games limited to the primitive input of that gamepad since that is what console gamers get and use mainly. Meanwhile PC developers work with a much more sophisticated and dynamic keyboard, therefore resulting in advanced and advancing games and genres. This is simple fact you can't argue since it is quantifiable at first sight.

Ha! That's funny!

What's even funnier though is that it isn't even true! A quick google check for video games released in February 2003 led to this page which shows there were more than 30 PC games released that month. I didn't even have to go through all of them to find 10 other games that got better scores according to GameRankings. And that's just counting PC games! (Although to be fair, MoO 3 wasn't the _worst_ game to come out that month either. There were two or three that managed to outscore it at sucking, and another two or three that came pretty close.)

You are wrong about fur, look at the endition of fur in Black and White 2 for example, that was quite convincing. http://guides.gamepressure.com/blackandwhite2/gfx/gallery/large/Screenshots/bnw2_scr4.jpg

I thought they were going to be talking about this ad...

Which someone made a parodied animated gif of that has a little more truth in it...

Could this be the one you're looking for

This is the company who brought you this. Which is too bad, since I think the name sounds stupid. I'll probably get one anyway though.

There's no indications anyone outside the company even has something looks like a dev kit yet, they haven't revealed what the machine even is to the public and I don't think they've revealed it to most developers. Microsoft's got, like, near-finished games. Sony's got devkits going out and they're publicly apologizing to developers for not being able to manufacture enough of them. Ask Nintendo what they're up to? They talk about the DS and its online plans.

I don't think Nintendo's anywhere near ready to ship this thing.

Also their memory supplier let slip that they believed the revolution would ship in "mid-2006". Take that however you want.

My personal suspicion would probably be that the Revolution is going to be released last. Nintendo's either got the most amazing show of secrecy ever constructed among men, or they aren't nearly as far along as Sony and Microsoft. And I doubt Sony will delay a console release just because they don't have any games. They didn't delay the PS2 launch for lack of games, they didn't delay the Japan PSP launch for lack of games, and when they delayed the American PSP launch (for lack of games at the time of Japanese launch?) it didn't really help them much.

If I'm right about this, though, Nintendo probably won't suffer much for coming out last. They seem to be going for a very different sort of strategy next generation than Sony and Microsoft.