PlayStation 2

Type: Console
Publisher: Sony
Firstly released in: Japan
First release: 04 Mar 2000
Release and compatibility details: Release on 2000-10-26 in USA, and 2000-11-24 in Europe.

Success and unsuccess:

Most popular years: 2001-now
Most popular countries: Japan, Europe, USA
Amount of games in database: 2195 (list)
Amount of music records in database: 80 (list)
Amount of downloadable MIDI tunes: 8 (list)
Importance on the market in the most popular years: Very high

Characteristics:

CPU: Toshiba ''Emotion Engine'' RISC chip (128-bit, 300 MHz)
Memory: 32MB DRAM, 4MB VRAM, 2MB RAM for sound
GPU: 150 MHz
Max. Polygon Rate: 75 million/sec
Sound: SPU2 chip (supports AC3, Dolby Digital, DTS), 48 channels
Drive: 4X DVD, 24X CD

Games are distributed on DVD, though they can be played also from CD.

More info: http://www.gamerland.com/systems/cgi-bin/showsystem.cgi?id=72

Games and music info:

Most common media for storing games: DVD
Average packed game size: 5 GB (size of one DVD)
Music formats: WAV / Redbook Audio / MP3

Emulation info:

Emulators are now in very soon stage and don't offer some reasonable gameplay yet.

This emulation info was written on 18.December 2002. (This time is very important, because emulation info very depends on the time it was written - emulators can improve a lot after this time..).