They don't have to eat the cost. They would still be selling the game and making money, just charging a little less for it. They had to do more work creating the original game from scratch than they had to do porting it to another platform. I'm not a programmer, but I'm sure there are a number of things that they didn't have to redo for the port (text, artwork ...). Therefore, to me it seems like they should actually need to make less money back from the port than the original since it likely cost them less to produce. So why should they charge more for it?
Console games are usually more expensive than PC games.
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