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ELI5: Why game consoles (e.g. ps4, xbox) are not designed to be used also as a PC?

They have powerful hardware... if they could run windows or linux, people would have more incentives to buy them.
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Sony and Microsoft actually *lose* money when you buy a PS4 or Xbox One. Quite a bit of it. They only sell the machines to encourage people to buy the games. The games are what makes them money.

If they let you use the PS4 or Xbox One as an ordinary PC, then people might buy them to use as ordinary PCs, rather than games machines. That would cost Sony/MS money.