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Do you listen to yourself? First you say they don't, then you say they do but that they're slow? Are VMs incapable or slow at it?
1. Any piece of hardware can be emulated through software (VM), and vice versa. Speed is not a factor; we're discussing whether it's possible, not whether it's practical.
2. Writing the software takes time. Obviously, it's impossible to emulate something that doesn't exist yet (unless you already have the specification), So a PS3 will exists as only hardware for a few years, until someone finishes writing an emulator for it.
3. They're called "virtual machines" because they're not physical. Not because there's some kind of unwritten law that states a virtual machine always has to implement an architecture that doesn't already exist as hardware.
IHBT, but fuck it.