To emulate those one will need insanely powerful PC and people willing to dig into those propietary consoles and write complex emulation software (both consoles have unique gaming-oriented hardware).īut not all is lost, actually. Even today Xbox 360 and PS3 are pretty decent pieces of hardware. I agree with answer but want to make a small addition.įirst, why this happens. The reasoning I use here for the original XBox can be expanded to XBox 360 or the PS3. This, coupled with the difficulty of reverse-engineering all the processes involved and translating them to a PC, makes the existing XBox emulators more of experiments.

Microsoft however made several modifications to the underlying systems and issued custom hardware. The XBox in particular is based around a standard PC. XBox and PS3, however, are slightly more complex systems. As the Wii is comparatively simpler than the XBox or the PS3 systems, there exists some emulators for it. The complexity of such program increases as the complexity of the console increases. Why? The reasons are too complex to discuss at Arqade but short story the hardware of both console and PC don't talk the same language, and the emulator ends up being a translator program between your PC and the software made for Wii. In order for this to become a reality, one needs to write specific software. Hence, it is possible to emulate Wii on a PC. CPU: IBM PowerPC 'Broadway' (Single-Core 729MHz)Īs you can see, in terms of processing power, a modern PC clearly surpasses a Wii.

As previous answers showed, there are 2 factors in consideration when emulating: the hardware present at the console and the software present at your PC.Ī Wii has the following specs (taken from Wikipedia):

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