It was for these reasons that it was thought that PS3 emulation would not be possible and certainly a challenge to do so. At the time of its release the PS3 could rival some of the top gaming PCs out there and it is not really surprising it game with a hefty £500 price tag on release in the UK. The Playstation 3 uses a Cell microprocessor and the RSX Reality Synthesizer GPU. This means that the project has multiple developers working on it all contributing different skillsets. RPCS3 – The Working Playstation 3 (PS3) Emulator RPCS3 in an open source PS3 emulator for Windows hosted at Github.