Downsides

One of the most common downside with any gaming system is the loading time and the price.  But with Playstation 2 being the hottest gaming system on the market,  there are not that many downsides other than what people think about the different games, witch can be found in the reviews section of this cite.

One of the biggest advantages that the PlayStation 2 bring to the world or gaming, is that it is not just a game system, it is a whole entertainment system in one little box. It will allow you to play video games, as a home theater with its DVD player, listen to your CD's, connect you to the internet and play with other friends on the net.  According to www.washtech.com the PlayStation 2 has on its appoints (X-Box and Game-Cube) is that it was out a whole year before all of them.  With the PlayStation 2 having an older brother the PlayStation, the games from the original PlayStation can also be played on the new PlayStation 2.  Giving the PlayStation 2 a wider variety of games.
 
 

Competitors

PlayStation 2's biggest Competitors are the X-Box and Game Cube

X-Box

Game Cube

 
 

Special Features
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CPU
    128-bit Playstation 2 CPU

System Clock Frequency
    294.912 MHz

Cache Memory
    Instruction: 16KB, Data: 8KB + 16KB (ScrP)

Main Memory
    Direct Rambus (Direct RDRAM)

Memory Size
    32MB

Memory Bus Bandwidth
    3.2GB per Second

Co-processor
    FPU (Floating Point Unit)
    Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 1,
    Floating Point Divider x 1

Vector Units
    VU0 and VU1
    Floating Point Multiply Accumulator x 9,
    Floating Point Divider x 3

Floating Point Performance
    6.2 GFLOPS
 

3D CG Geometric Transformation
    66 Million Polygons per second
 

Compressed Image Decoder
    MPEG2
 

Graphics
    Graphics Synthesizer™

Clock Frequency
    147.456MHz

Embedded DRAM
    4MB

DRAM Bus bandwidth
    48GB per Second

DRAM Bus width
    2560 Bits

Pixel Configuration
    RGB:Alpha:Z Buffer (24:8:32)

Polygon Drawing Rate
    75 Million Polygons per Second

Screen Resolution
    Variable from 256 x 224 to 1280 x 1024
 

Sound
    "SPU2+CPU"

Number of Voices
    ADPCM: 48ch on SPU2 plus definable, software programmable voices

Sound Memory
 2MB

Output Frequency
    Variable up to 48 KHz (DAT quality)
 

IOP
    I/O Processor

CPU Core
    PlayStation (current) CPU

Clock Frequency
    33.8688MHz or 36.864MHz (Selectable)

IOP Memory
    2MB

Sub Bus
    32-bit

Interface Types
    IEEE1394 i.Linkä , Universal Serial Bus (USB) x 2
    Controller Port x 2, Memory Card x 2
 

Disc Device
    CD-ROM and DVD-ROM

Device Speed
    CD-ROM 24 times speed
    DVD-ROM 4 times speed
 

New Features
    (North American model)
    Drive bay (for 3.5" hard disc drive)
    Expansion unit (for network interface)
    DVD-Video playback built into the hardware, no Memory Card required
 

 
 
 
 
 

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