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I've gotten a lot of use out of my lovely PCSX2 PS2 emulator, and it's fairly easy to find functional emulators for consoles preceding that. Mostly because of my choice in games, I've never really adventured into checking out emulators for consoles post-PS2. Not that I have any pressing needs, but I'm curious if anyone has any experience in that direction: have you used any, what was the performance like, how much game coverage is there, etc?

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I'm not aware of anything useful existing for post PS2-era consoles, except the Wii (because it's just a Gamecube with a pointy wand and a funny OS).

In general, you can only successfully emulate things with vastly inferior hardware, so I expect it will be a long while before there are any particularly effective PS3/360 emulators; the complexity of the machines and firmware/OS won't help matters either. (The Saturn is still hard to emulate largely due to being technically complicated, although there is a large dose of hardly anyone caring involved in that equation too). Even New Super Mario Bros. Wii was a bit choppy last time I tried to emulate it, although that was admittedly on considerably older machinery than I use now.

Since the current gen are basically PCs, I wonder if emulation will come more easily. Doesn't seem to have helped the original Xbox, though, which is equally PC-derived, but there's probably yet another dose of not caring getting in the way of that.