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ELI5: How do game producers keep getting better graphics in games played on consoles, that keep getting older?

Take forinstance the new GTA:V. How do game producers like Rockstar keep getting better and better graphics from the PlayStation 3? It's not like the hardware gets better?
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Literally ELI5:

At the beginning of a consoles lifespan developers have an idea for a game but no idea of the practical limitations of the console. It's like trying to fit a square peg into a round circle hole. They shave the edges of the square peg down until it fits, but its never a perfect circle.

At the end of a consoles lifespan, developers know exactly what the limitations are of the console and are able to optimize their game for it from the ground up. They are essentially designing a round circle peg to the exact size of the hole it will fit into.