PlayStation 2

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PlayStation 2
The PlayStation 2
General information
Type	Video game console
Manufacturer(s)	Sony
First available	4 March 2000
Launch price	¥39,800 (JP) $299 (US) £300 (UK) ₣2990 (FR) €455 (EU) Rp1.1 million (ID)
Discontinued	4 January 2013
Units sold	155.0 million (as of March 2012)
Technical information
CPU	MIPS R5900 Emotion Engine 294.912MHz (Slim @ 299MHz)
RAM	32MB RDRAM 4 MB eDRAM
Sound	Analog Stereo Dolby Pro Logic II Dolby Digital 5.1 (movies only) DTS 5.1 (movies only)
Timeline
Precursor	PlayStation
Successor	PlayStation 3

The PlayStation 2 (プレイステーションツー , Pureisutēshontsū^?), often abbreviated as PS2, is a video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2000. It competed with Sega's Dreamcast, Nintendo's GameCube and Microsoft's Xbox. Its successor was the PlayStation 3 and its predecessor was the PlayStation, the later of which saw no Sonic games were released as Sega was still manufacturing their own video game consoles at the time.

Seven games in the Sonic the Hedgehog series were available for the system, including three from Sega featuring Sonic.

Sonic games

Sonic Heroes	Sonic Mega Collection Plus	Sonic Gems Collection (JP/EU)
Shadow the Hedgehog	Sonic Riders	Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity
Sonic Unleashed

Sega games featuring Sonic

Sega Superstars	Sega Genesis Collection	Sega Superstars Tennis

Greatest Hits games

Sonic Mega Collection Plus	Sonic Heroes	Shadow the Hedgehog	Sonic Riders

Characters introduced

The 100th and final issue of the Official UK PlayStation 2 Magazine, featuring Sonic on the front cover

• E-123 Omega
• Egg Pawn
• E-2000
• E-2000R
• Shadow Android
  • Hero Shadow Android
  • Dark Shadow Android
• Neo Metal Sonic
  • Metal Madness
    • Metal Overlord
• Commander
• Black Doom
  • Devil Doom
• Black Bull
• Hero Shadow
• Dark Shadow
• Jet's father
• Jet the Hawk
• Stolen
• Storm the Albatross
• Wave the Swallow
• E-10000G
• E-10000R
• SCR-GP
• SCR-HD
  • Master Core: ABIS
• SA-55
• Chip
  • Gaia Colossus
• Dark Gaia
  • Perfect Dark Gaia
• Sonic the Werehog
• Professor Pickle

Trivia

• The PlayStation 2's life cycle was a total of thirteen years (2000-2013) and sold over 155 million units before being officially discontinued on 4 January 2013. As well, the PlayStation 4 would then be announced a month later and was released in November of the same year.
• The PS2 has over 1,850 games available.
• This is the first console to have a DVD drive.
• Sega Superstars is the only Sonic-related game exclusive to the PS2 that comes with the EyeToy camera.
• The PS2 contains the largest selection of Sonic games available across the 6th generation, having a total of 10 games, including compilations featuring Sonic.
• Sonic Heroes was the first Sonic game to appear on a Sony console.
• The NTSC PS2 versions of Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog are the only releases of said games to allow the player to separately change the voice and text languages in-game.
• The PS2 version of Sonic Gems Collection was released in Japan and Europe but was never released in the US for unknown reasons. The PS2 version also contains both soundtracks to Sonic CD, which can be changed by switching the console’s language. This is not the case for the GameCube port, which may have been done to save space. However, the version of Sonic R on GameCube supports four-players, which was reduced to two on PS2.

External links

• PlayStation 2 at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Video game platforms

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