One of the earliest and most powerful game consoles is the Xbox 360. Like its predecessor, the Xbox, it is enjoying phenomenal success. The Xbox 360 amazes players with its exceptional visual quality. Their gaming library offers a vast array of games that everyone will find most appealing. The developers of emulators of the original Xbox as well as for other gaming consoles have turned their focus to the Xbox 360.

Although emulation has only focused on making emulations for Windows systems because of porting problems and other possible limitations, they still have exactly the same goal they share with other emulators and that is to ensure that the games of the Xbox 360 can be played on people's personal computers as well.

Emulation is a complicated process and the original manufacturers like Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony do not help either. The challenge of people developing emulators is effectively coding a program that makes the PC's system hardware "think" as if it is an actual XBOX 360 system. While this may seem to be easy since the maker of the XBOX 360 is a company that is associated with PC, emulation continues to be difficult due to the lack of understanding on how the games relate to the system itself.

When developing an emulator the makers of them need to make them in such a way that whatever game is being played is performing at the same level of performance. Developing an emulator that is as close to the original as possible is not a simple process, not even when the emulator is for the older eight bit and sixteen bit gaming consoles.

This is why many of the emulators trying to emulate the later consoles are far from perfect including the original XBOX itself where there are very few emulators available and most of them have been abandoned due to lack of time or resources by the developers. Emulators are not created for profitable purposes and doing so is considered legal. Therefore, any developer must have the passion of making an emulator knowing that no money will be made unless the developer has a loyal community that gives donations.

Currently, there are no known XBOX 360 emulators at the moment, but things may change if people have the time and resources to step up to the challenge. XBOX 360 emulator is definitely possible though, but since the XBOX 360 hardware composes of advanced hardware, the system running the emulator (if any exists) must have really high system specs for the emulator to run flawlessly.

XBOX 360 emulation is also considered impractical by many because many of the good games in XBOX 360 have PC versions. It could still be handy in a way since you can use XBOX 360 controllers on a PC, but with all the challenges in emulation, most programmers think it's not worth the developing time.

Whether the developers will come up with an Xbox 360 emulator remains to be seen, so it is advisable that people who want to have the pleasure of Xbox 360 gaming, should first find a version for the computer. It is a fact that your hardware would not be able to handle the emulator if it cannot handle the game. To save yourself the trouble and frustration it is advisable that you purchase the original console. In this way you will have the peace of mind that you can enjoy all the games and all the fun features that come with the Xbox 360.