As long as your emulators on computer run at full speed, the hardware solution in phat PS3 has no advantage. Unless your gameplay depends on some specific hardware behaviour the software can’t or doesn’t emulate, which never happens for regular gamers.
Your PS3 can play PS2 and PS1 games natively and can emulate SNES, GBA, Genesis and MAME games with CFW.
Some PS3s can. OG models mostly. It then became software emulation… For which your PC can probably do better, cheaper.
As long as your emulators on computer run at full speed, the hardware solution in phat PS3 has no advantage. Unless your gameplay depends on some specific hardware behaviour the software can’t or doesn’t emulate, which never happens for regular gamers.
laughs in PC
Laughs in steam deck
Can play Blu-Rays too