> The young programmers these days are probably attracted to the consoles they grew up > with in the 1990's and 2000's.
There's more to it than that - as I said, emulation is far from the only category of F/OSS wondering where the new blood is. And even emulation of newer consoles isn't doing as well as it used to. There were multiple PSX/Saturn/N64 emulators, multiple Dreamcast emulators, and multiple GBA and DS emulators. There's 1 Dolphin and 1 PCSX2.