Well, it's actually more about software then ever before actually. Even Nintendo realized that and is slowly going mobile.
MSis already trying a transition from Xbox as a hardware to Xbox as a software. I have Xbox on my Lumia as well as Xbox on my PC.
And those services are getting more 'consolelike' while PS4One are more PC-like then every console before.
It's more or less that a major part of the consumers (aka. gamers) still think in hardware. But that might change in the next few years, like the slow change from physical to digital games.