is there any way to...

[douglasb]

play x-box/x-box360 or ps2/ps3 games on a computer?

[cigbunt]

alot of decent game come out on all formats...

i dont think there is but i havnt actively looked!
xbox 360 are soon cheap now tho...

haha i bet its GTA4 u want to play huh?

[KalC]

Buy a VGA box? But the quality is rubbish so I would stay away from them

[cigbunt]

haha i think he means via placing the actual xbox/ps3 dvd in to a pc drive dont u?

[Agent]

Aside from emulators which never give the exact experience, no.

[Thorsson]

No decent Emulators for Xbox360 or PS3. By decent I mean "that work".

[SiM]

No decent Emulators for Xbox360 or PS3. By decent I mean "not a virus".

corrected

don't bother searching... it will be years before there is a working one...

they have made a fairly decent PS2 one but that has been in development since the PS2 was release afaik... its called pscx2

[robots]

You can play XBOX and PS2 games on a PC really well with an emulator. There are various ones to choose from, some bad, but some work really well. I doubt it is legal though - even if you own the actual game. It's a bit of a grey area because you are running a modified version of it on a different system. It's probably illegal, but it's technically possible and lots of people do it.

The emulation process uses a lot of PC resources though, so on older games for those older consoles, it's ok because a modern PC can handle it. But there are no PS3 or XBOX360 emulators that I know of, and there won't be any for a long time. (Couple of years or more).

As someone above said though, a lot of games are available on both PC and console anyway. And you can achieve other things too, for example plugging a keyboard + mouse into your console etc.. so if that was your reason for wanting to do it, you could do that.

[SiM]

Its "legal" if you own a PS2 and you dump the bios yourself... but who knows how to do that lol

I'm gonna give it a go with Final Fantasy 12 (its only a tenner) because my PS2 laser is dead...