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In the US at least, the biggest issue is bandwith and its cost. Every cell carrier is jewish as fuck. In your head, you'd imagine every device should be easily capable of getting a cell connection anywhere. Theoretically, they could, but one of the three carriers has to get their buck somehow. Phone plans are expensive enough on their own, but have you ever looked at how much a non-phone device costs to add on to a Verizon or AT&T plan? I work with a lot of new cars, and let me tell you, it's a complete fucking racket. 5 gigs of data is something absurd like $40 a month for a car's built-in hotspot. Your snot nosed brat is gonna burn through that in an hour streaming Peppa Pig. Tablets aren't much better, but they at least have "unlimited" plans. Of course, there's no such thing as unlimited data on any cell carrier unless you're grandfathered in to a 20+ year old plan from the 3G days. You'll hit 25 or 30 gigs and they'll mysteriously start throttling you without telling you. Absolute dogshit for gaming.
So you add all that up, and here's the icing on the cake: cell service isn't as simple as dropping a little wifi chip on a board and calling it a day. Every fucking mobile device builds it into their main SoC. Ever notice that laptops don't have cell service by default? Some do, but if you look at the specs, they're always using ARM processors instead of x86 (some sort of Snapdragon or Mediatek instead of Intel/AMD) - that's because they're tablets pretending to be laptops. Intel, AMD, and obviously important for Nintendo, Nvidia, don't make SoCs for the consumer market with cell modems built in, primarily because of everything I previously listed.
Shit like the Vita or the original Kindles having 3G built in were a relic of their time. The web was simpler, files were smaller, etc. It wouldn't work well with how gay snd retarded everything is now.
