The order to get rid of consoles? MS, Sony and lastly Nintendo.
Since LIVE MS has brought nothing to the party, and the fact that they're so desperate to get rid of the games bit out of the games console tell me everything I need to know about their feelings on the medium.
I think Sony for all their faults does push games to sell their hardware. They invest a lot in making exclusive games. MS just buy timed exclusives for the sole purpose of screwing over other gamers. And while Sony add the other stuff to make a complete package and compare with their competitors their focus is still clearly games - just look at the different focus of PS+ to LIVE Gold.
When people think about Nintendo hardware nowadays all they seem to think is "I hate waggle". They forget about all the other innovations, and even the fact that although they do make odd hardware decisions, non of their pre-Wii consoles were underpowered. The Wii was underpowered because they decided they were chasing a losing battle. Hardcore gamers wouldn't touch a nintendo console because it's for kids, even if it had comparable power so they went for a different market. It worked - which is something a lot of people also seem to forget when they're talking about that generation, just because they weren't interested in it. Which kind of proved Nintendo made the right decision.
If one of the other two dropped out of the hardware market so Nintendo was competing more directly with it's competiors and had the correspondingly bigger slice of pie to work with then I see them mkaing a powerful console because they have a much higher chance of getting a decent return on the extra investment.