Scorpio: 'Most powerful never wins' law remains intact?

[PAOerfulone]

Looks to be like the PS4 winning has been the outlier in these past 4 generations
PS1, despite being inferior to the N64, beat the crap out of it.
PS2 beat the crap out of the Xbox and GameCube.
The Wii and DS, respectively, came out on top last Gen against it's graphically superior competitors.
Now we move to this generation where the 3DS has destroyed the Vita. The PS4 is the one exception to the rule, and I really don't think that had anything to do with it being just a teeny, tiny bit more powerful than the Xbox One.
I think the main reason it did it, other than them riding and continuing the late generation momentum they captured with the PS3, was because of Sony's ability to capitalize on that DISASTROUS first reveal of the Xbox One back in 2013 right before E3. Gamers everywhere, both dedicated and casual, were so disgusted by the reveal that Sony could have had an average "C+" reveal for the PS4, and they still would have absolutely loved it, because unless Sony was doing the exact same thing, anything in comparison was going to MUCH preferred of the original Xbox One design and idea.
So much of those sales in the first year or year in a half of both system's life cycles were Microsoft suffering and recovering from the damage that initial reveal did to them, while Sony reaped the benefits.