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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
It is true that some developers are taking the lazy route and developing for consoles and just porting or making slight tweaks to bring it onto the PC. However other developers are specifically developing for PC to maximize their games' ability to make complete use of all high end PC features and then downsizing for console (or ignoring console completely). Some of the biggest MMORPGs are PC only after all.
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Microsoft sold the idea of porting and re-using code to developers to lower production costs across platforms. If they can use the same code on pc and xbox then the developers save money, so they are going to do it. They can then choose to build on the code and improve things like textures or features. Many do make a lot of improvements but you will always see those that do next to nothing too.
Lazyness, budget, time, expected audience or whatever probably dictates the changes between versions.