If Microsoft's measure of success has changed, why hasn't ours?

[Qwark]

Because we want to compare consoles. But PC as a whole is infinitely bigger than consoles. Everyone buying a PC and plays games on it buys Windows and Office. Which is way more profitable than buying a piece of plastic.

Sony does need a bigger installbase since they can't sell an operating system. But even they are moving towards a software and system based model instead of one based on hardware. Though Sony collects a lot of income from royalty's and PS+. So stelling plastic is still very important for Sony and Nintendo much more than MS. Since they still get a lot of money from pc gaming. But hey we want to compare consoles so we don't bother with it.