For adventure games to grow and become more mainstream again, games demanding higher specs needs to happen. Why you might ask - why can't they include a very low option also? Well for starters, it just might not be financially viable for them to develop the game to include this option... I mean the group that would want to buy it but have not got the hardware to play it are small in size. Furthermore, another reason in case the previous one is not applicable is simply because that's not how business works!
In business you pick the market that will get you the most sales and target everything specifically for them. Of course, game companies would need to target the mainstream gamers for said development of our beloved genre to happen, mainstream gamers who just love cutting edge games technologically speaking (amongst having other qualities) and this is the market that they have surely picked.
A reason for why this philosophy is good practice whilst using this example would be this - imagine this game next to an other new, big budget title in a game store that is targeting the same market. A gamer (who is in the target market) is having a hard time choosing between the two titles but then sees that L.A Noir's specs have a lower option which the other does not have, this makes L.A Noir seem more archaic than the other and it makes it less appealing.
TBH though, those specs are low in power. They have been the typical specs for average priced family PCs for a very long time now.
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