Everybody else has pretty much hit it dead on. Consoles and PC's just aren't up to power yet.
Remember, video games (in comparison to other industries) are very young. They have only been in existence for half a century starting with the pinball parlor games, and when it comes to home consoles, we're talking a total lifetime of three decades if we start with the Magnavox home version of pong.
As for industries that have had much longer to mature, they too still have their shortcomings. Automobiles have been around for over a century, yet like Windows Vista they crash all the time. It comes to the whole cosmic sense of where we are as a civilization and as humanity. On top of that, we must remember what it is we desire, too.
Sure, maybe in ten years, they'll have the 1080p resolution down to a fine science, and achieving a normal-mapped 2 million polygon environment at 60 fps would become kindergarten caliber. But in ten years, somebody just like you will be hitting up the forums asking the same exact question.
"Hey? What the heck, guys? How come they can't get me that ultra holo-crack 5096p resolution at 120 frames per second!? The only game I've seen do that is Gran Turismo 15! Stupid lazy developers, DON'T THEY CARE ABOUT US GAMERS!?"
Trust me, developers aren't at all bothered by the picky types. If it wasn't for somebody going "eh, whadda-heck is'dis rubbish foo's!?" every five seconds at Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 4 would be called a cheap ripoff of Frontlines: Fuel of War. So stay picky and impossible to satisfy, gamers. The industry depends on it.
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