Why is an emulator required to play Playstation/Xbox/Nintendo games on a PC?

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After all, doesn’t a PC contain all of the same components as video game consoles? (Hard drive, GPU and CPU, etc.)

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Because the operating system on the PC is different than on the Xbox/PS/Nintendo.

Emulator basically means creating a operating system and making it believe that it is running on a separate device. So when you have a xBox emulator, the operating system thinks that it is running in an XBOX but in reality it is running on a PC.

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