Sony Playstation 2

General Sony Playstation 2 info
The Sony Playstation 2 was released in 2000. The Japanese, North American, European, and Australian versions were all released in 2000. The Slim version was released in 2004. The Japanese, North American, European, Australian versions of the PS2 Slim were all released in 2004. The PS2's competitors were the Sega Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, and the Microsoft Xbox. (please help this wiki by creating the pages for the PS2's competitors!)

PS2 hardware specs

 * 1) CPU: MIPS R5900-based Emotion Engine clocked at 294.912 MHz.
 * 2) GPU: GS Core: Parallel Rendering Processor with embedded DRAM Graphics Synthesizer clocked at 147.456 MHz.
 * 3) IPU: MPEG-2 compressed image macroblock layer decoder
 * 4) MMU: RDRAM controller and DMA controller: handle memory access in the system.
 * 5) Audio: SPU1+SPU2, 2 MB
 * 6) IOP: MIPS R3000A clocked at 33.8688 MHz
 * 7) Cache memory: Instruction Cache: 16 KB, Data Cache : 8 KB + 16 KB Scratchpad
 * 8) System memory: 32 MB RDRAM
 * 9) Connectivity: 2 Playstation controller ports, 2 memory card slots, 2 USB 1.1 ports, AV Multi Out, RFU DC Out, S/PDIF Digital Out, Expansion Bay, PC Card, Emotion Engine, Ethernet port, i.LINK, and Infrared remote control port.