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Released in the U.S. on October 26th of 2000, Sony's Playstation 2 took the game industry by storm. Priced at $129.99 Sony's system continues to outsell other competitor's current gen systems in Japan. With it's built in DVD player and backwards compatibility, the PS2 was instrumental in ushering in the age of the DVD.

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CPU: 128 Bit “Emotion Engine”

System Clock: 300 MHz
System Memory: 32 MB Direct RambusMemory Bus Bandwidth: 3.2 GB per secondCo-Processor: FPU (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1 Floating Point Divider x 1)Vector Units: VUO and VU1 (Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9, Floating Pint Divider x 1)Floating Point Performance: 6.2 GFLOPS3D CG Geometric Transformation: 66 Million Polygons Per Second
Compressed Image Decoder: MPEG2

Graphics: “Graphics Synthesizer”

Clock Frequency: 150 MHz
DRAM Bus Bandwidth: 48 GB Per SecondDRAM Bus Width: 2560 bitsPixel Configuration: RGB Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8:32)
Maximum Polygon Rate: 75 Million Polygons Per Second

Sound: “SPU2+CPU”

Number of voices: ADPCM: 48 channel on SPU2 plus, definable by software.
Sampling Frequency: 44.1Jhz or 48 KHz (selectable)

I/O Processor

CPU Core: Current Playstation CPU
Clock Frequency: 33.8 MHz or 37.5 MHz (selectable)Sub Bus: 32 BitInterface Types: IEEE 1394 Universal Serial Bus (USB)
Communication via PC0 Card PCMCIA

Disc Media

DVD-ROM (CD-ROM compatible)

Gamer's Perspective

The Hardware