Shouldn't success be measured by the games?

[Erik Aston]

Legend11 said:
suc�cess �� (sk-ss) KEY �

NOUN:

1. The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted: attributed their success in business to hard work.

Now shouldn't the desire of gamers be for their console to have a great library of games?  How exactly did I use the word wrong when I'm talking about success of a console from a gamer's viewpoint?

That isn't the success of the console. As you said, its the gamer's viewpoint, the gamer's desire, and so the success of the gamer. While you could say that the console maker was successful in making a console that the gamer likes, that is not their desire. Their desire is to make a console which the most people possible like, which brings us back to sales. Data/anecdote argument if you try to go that way next.

If it sounds strange to say "the success of the gamer," that's because it IS strange to say; the more common way to say it would be "OMG 360 is awsome it has so many awsome games Bioshock + Mass Effect FTW!!1"