Nintendo will fight as hard as possible to avoid putting their main software into other's hardware, just to avoid devaluing their products. The mobile bussiness will make a lot of money, but it won't replace their main bussiness, specially due to the brutal competition on mobile.
PlayStation is getting more and more of Sony's atention, because it will be used as a gateway for their services. A lot of Sony hardware can connect to PS devices, and Sony music and movies can be sold through PS. It won't be abandoned at all, even with them leaving the handheld market.
One of the objectives of the XBox brand for Microsoft was creating a brand popular and "cool" to appeal to potential younger costumers. However, by doing that, they lost the oportunity of being the main distributor of digital gaming on PC, and their mobile schemes didn't affect that market at all, Android and IOs are still the kings while Microsoft Mobile isn't doing nearly as well as Microsoft would like. With PCs growing in power and in popularity over consoles, I can see Microsoft releasing a XBox digital distribution system for PC and the next XBox (that will basically be a Windows PC with standarised hardware and a controller). And after that, just leave the console department completely and focus on PC digital distribution, maybe still selling XBox machines that are just PCs with controllers.
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