Mining on game consoles was relevant during the shortage of video cards and their very expensive cost. Mining was very profitable, so laptops and game consoles were used for mining. Now it is irrelevant and not profitable due to the end of ethereum mining and the presence of a large number of inexpensive video cards on the market.
Yeah I remember the Ukrain PS4 farm that was in the news last year
Here it is: https://www.techarp.com/business/ukrainian-crypto-mine-ps4/This is why I was curious and started the research.
The only reason is it was the easiest way to get a GPU at the time. Mining with laptop GPUs was also popular.
They both have the same issues. In a normal market they cost more for their mining performance and mining runs them harder than they are designed for.