Depends on which console you're referring to. If it's retro, a Vita or another portable console with physical buttons is my choice. If it's a modern console, like the PS5, I'd just buy it instead of waiting years for an emulator to pop up.

I enjoy playing games on the console i bought

Same, I like having a more authentic experience. not saying emulating isn't valid, though.

Definitely playing games on the legit console is the overall better experience, but for like retro stuff like the NES or N64 I would prefer to emulate those just for convenience and there's not enough games I would play on those to warrant buying them.

For modern consoles I think the best excuse for emulation is if you cannot actually access the console/game you want to play, or if you're looking for a specific experience.

bit of both for me. Love having the original game and original console, it hits a good spot. however emulation has its moments where games perform better emulated than on its original platform, its good for archival purposes as well as a lot of games have become incredibly difficult to find or cost a pretty penny (for example once sold my copy of Probotector (Sega Genesis) for almost triple its retail price).

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I love my Vita, the battery lasts forever

I love my vita because it's so small and silly

I miself love playing the actual console, since emulating ive seen a lot of bugs and while people say that having the console takes a lot of space specifically the games (specially for old consoles), but on my case, I use an everdrive, its not emulating but more like a reprogramable cardtrige, defunetly gives you the best experience, and for the ps vita, you cannot replace it with anything since its perfect as it was made, and also because mobile emulating is pretty bad

Real hardware beats emulation 99.99% of the time.