PCs have the advantage and disadvantage of a faster changing system with many options.
the big advantages are that current pc hardware is allready more powerfull that the hd consoles now, and in the coming years the gap will increase more and more.
But that alos brings the disadvatage that developers have no specific system to target, the cannot optimise that heavy for the special hardware like they can on consoles.
On pc they need a big memory eating OS running in background to provide an API that allows them to talk with all kinds of gfx cards/ sound cards... without a full os running all the time games on pcs would probably need a lot less memory too, but then game devs would have to adjust the games specifically for each possible hardware.
Also developers cannot just target their games at the best possible hardware on pcs or sales would be too bad (crysis showed that to some limits, most people are not willing to update their pc just for one shooter that maybe looks good but has not much more to offer than looks).
So at the current püoint in time the hd consoles can deliver about similar graphic details & effects as the more powerfull pcs just cause the devs can better optimise the games for that hardware. This will probably stay for a limited time since the devs are getting better with optimising on the consoles, while on the pc side the average hardware improves. But over time there will probably come more and more games for pcs that won't be portable to consoles aynmore without sacrificing some graphics...
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