Ask HN: Why doesn't Sony sell PS* emulators for PC?

The same goes for Nintendo and MS and their consoles and also for arcade console manufacturers.

The emulator scene has shown that it's perfectly possible to emulate pretty much any console architecture on a zero budget, so it can't be a matter of resources, either money or engineers. Sony is reselling its back catalogue emulated on PS3, PS4 and Vita anyway, so they're already emulating their older architectures on newer ones.

So why not also do it on the PC? There's bound to be some PC gamers who don't own consoles, but wouldn't mind playing console games on a PC. And Sony could even sell them peripherals (I for one have a PS4 controller for my PC gaming needs).

So there must be another reason- probably something political, or marketing-y. What is it? I can't think of it. Help me HN! :)