As some people have pointed out, this isn't really true. It's a lot more complicated than that. But even assuming it were true, we don't have a large enough sample yet to point to any trends. We've really only got 4 examples to look at (5 if you consider this gen settled), and at numbers that small, any patterns can easily be chalked up to coincidence.
And that's exactly the explanation I would go with. The past competitions have been decided by many complicated factors entirely apart from the respective power of the consoles. For instance, Sony courted third parties better than Nintendo during the PS1 era, and it rode on the success of its brand to find victory with the PS2. The technical inferiority of those systems didn't have much to do with it.
There's one factor that goes along with the weaker systems that's not trivial, though: they launch earlier. Since price has never been particularly correlated with system power, I'd say that's the one significant force that gives weaker systems a (slight) edge.
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