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Why not just buy a solid controller for your phone or tablet?

How could this hypothetical device possibly be better than an iPhone 12 Pro Max, Note, Galaxy S, etc?

Just to add to your comment, you can already turn any phone to a "streaming Switch" for $30, there are dozens of controllers like this:

https://smile.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BRX3RT3/

the Steam Link android app lets you stream any of your games to your phone like this already. With a little more setup you can stream Wii games to your phone through Moonlight from CEMU and run them at 1440p60, while the Switch can barely do 720p30.

by having access to the steam pc game library, which is huge

Both major mobile OS platforms support steam link.

The games have to be run on some machine though

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