Product Name: PlayStation 2
Official Retail Price (Japan): $39,800 Yen ($299 US)
Date:October 26 in North America
Playstation 2 shipped for $39,800 in Japan, and is selling in the US for $299 ($499 Canadian). This price will be the result of new Emotion Engine factories which are already built.
Japan - March 4, 2000
Asian Markets - Summer 2000
USA - October 26, 2000
Accessories included:
Dual Shock 2 analog controller, High capacity 8MB Memory Card, AV Multi cable, AC power cord
Dimensions: 301mm (W) x 178mm (H) x 78mm (D), (12" x 7" x 3")
Weight: 2.1 kg (4 lbs. 10 oz.) .
Media: PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and PlayStation CD-ROM, CD Audio. This means your PlayStation 2 will be able to play almost all your old PlayStation games , all music CDs and all DVDs from the same region.
Formats supported: Audio CD, DVD-Video.
Controller port (2), Memory Card slot (2), AV Multicable output (1) Optical digital output (1),USB port (2),Link (IEEE1394), (1), Type III PCMCIA card slot (1)
CPU:128-Bit Emotion Engine
System Clock Frequency: 294.912 MHz
Capabilities: MPEG2 Support
This means that support for MPEG2 DVD ROM compression is handled by the hardware, so your DVD movies will look extra-good. It also means that PS2 developers can compress texture images using MPEG2 compression to save space without taking a hit on game speed.
Performance: Floating Point performance 6.2 GFLOPS
This means the PlayStation 2 can process more than 6.2 billion floating point operations (basic math equations) per second. This is about 15 times faster than a Pentium II processor and three times faster than a Pentium III 66 Million Polygons per Second Geometry Calculations. This is a better real world test of the PlayStation 2, but remember this a best case scenario, in game numbers will be lower. The current PlayStation can only process around 350,000 polygons per second.
Graphics: "Graphics Synthesizer"
Clock Frequency: 147.456MHz
Embedded DRAM: VRAM 4MB
Because of the high memory transfer speed in the PlayStation 2, its 4MB VRAM is just as effective than higher memory PC accelerator cards.
DRAM Bus Bandwidth: 48 GB per second
This is the memory transfer speed, for the 4MB VRAM. Its outlandish speed lets the Graphics Synthesizer process faster.
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