game machines often have dedicated hardware made specifically for running games on otherwise slow hardware. Also things like extremely thin OSes with almost-rea

game machines often have dedicated hardware made specifically for running games on otherwise slow hardware. Also things like extremely thin OSes with almost-real-time guarantees about the speed at which things will run. The screen is also much larger than a Phone screen, more like an iPad. So now you're selling an iPad accessory, locked to Apple's store and architectuaral decisions. Not to mention that selling it themselves like this while controlling software distribution lets them subsidize the cost of the machine with software sales It would be quite a challenge to get Skyrim working on a phone, I imagine.