Name: PlayStation 2 (or PS2)
Launch date in Japan: Saturday, March 4, 2000 (3-4-2000, or in Japan, 4/3/2000).
Price: 39,800 yen (about $360-$370) [ed note: This is the Japanese price only and does not reflect what the PS2 price will be in North America or Europe]
Accessories included: Dual Shock 2 analog controller (a more sensitive black-colored controller that feels and plays just like the original PS Dual Shock Controller); a newly designed high capacity 8 MB Memory Card (which fits into both PS and PS2 slots); PS2 demo disc; AV multi cable; AC power cord PS2 can be perched two ways, horizontally and vertically. (The stand to sit it vertically will be sold separately.)
According to SCEI, PlayStation 2 will launch with a whopping 12 games. While having fewer games at launch than Sega, a dozen launch games is an exceptional number, especially considering the variety and quality of games available.
The official Japanese launch titles are:
Tekken Tag Tournament (Fighting, Namco)
Gran Turismo 2000 (Racing, Sony)
The Bouncer (Fighting-action, Square)
Street Fighter EX3 (Fighter, Capcom)
Eternal Ring (Adventure, From Software)
Kesson (Strategic sim, KOEI)
Popolocrois 3 (“Romantic anime,” Sony)
Dark Cloud (RPG, Sony)
Unison (Dance action and sim, Tecmo)
Drum Mania (Action, Konami)
Den Sen Electric Lines (Action, Sony)
A-Train (Sim, Artdink)
Emotion Engine
128bit CPU 294.912mhz 6.2bflops, 2 vector units dual 128bit wide bus channels 20million polygons per second
Graphics Synthesizer
147.456mhz 16 parallel pixel engines 2560bit wide bus 48gigabytes of bus bandwidth 4megabytes emdeded DRAM 1 billion pixels per second
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Chipset board
32megabytes of direct RAMBUS 2megabytes of sound RAM 2megabytes IOP RAM 2 channel 800mhz bus 3.2gigabytes of bus bandwidth FireWire, USB, and PCMCIA Digital optical output 4 speed DVD/CD drive
IO-Processor
CPU from current PlayStation 33.868mhz or 36.864mhz selectable
