The Xbox 360 has an advantage here because its 3-core IBM PowerPC architecture is better understood. And this makes creating a performant emulator even more difficult. The PS3’s Cell architecture was infamously hard to code for back in the day. But in terms of usability right now, we’d have to give the edge to Xenia. Both of these emulators are highly capable. Besides that, PC gamers are forced to miss out on a lot of great exclusives, too.īut Xenia and RPCS3, the two best Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators respectively, when paired with a powerful PC, can let you experience these games without seventh-gen hardware. But there are a lot of seventh-gen games like Red Dead Redemptionthat simply never received PC ports. Today, we almost take it for granted that multiplatform games will launch on PC. This is important because, during the seventh-gen, PC wasn’t as important a platform as it is now. We’re now at the point where emulators are powerful enough to run both Xbox 360 and PS3 games at playable framerates. In the 15 years since Xbox 360 launched, PC hardware has evolved considerably.

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