Play. Station 2 Wikipedia. Play. Station 2. Left Original Play. Station 2, with vertical stand. Right Slimline Play. Station 2, with vertical stand, 8 MB memory card and Dual. Shock 2 controller. Also known as. PS2. PS2-Fat-Console-Back.jpg/1200px-PS2-Fat-Console-Back.jpg' alt='How To Ps2 Games In Hard Disk' title='How To Ps2 Games In Hard Disk' />Developer. Sony Computer Entertainment. Manufacturer. Sony. Product family. Play. Station. Type. Home video game console. Generation. Sixth generation. Release date. Play. Station 2. JP March 4, 2. NA October 2. 6, 2. EU November 2. 4, 2. AU November 3. 0, 2. Play. Station 2 Slimline. EU October 2. 9, 2. JP November 3, 2. NA November 2. 5, 2. AU December 2, 2. Retail availability. Discontinued. Units sold. A few years ago Simon took a look at PCSX2 How to Play Sony PlayStation 2 Games on your PC How to Play Sony PlayStation 2 Games on your PC Want to play some of the. Approximately 1. 55 million as of March 3. Media. DVD, CDCPUEmotion Engine45 3. MHz4Memory. 32 MB of RDRAM system RAM64 MB of e. Games on My Hard Drive PS3 system will be backwardscompatible with PS2 and PS1 games. Announced PS3 Games. Tekken Namco. Killzone Guerilla Vision Gran Turismo. DRAM video RAM78Storage. GB hard driveadd onRemovable storage. MB Play. Station 2 memory card. KB Play. Station memory card. Display. Graphics. MHz Graphics Synthesizer4Sound. Dolby Digital 5. 1 and DTS 5. Controller input. Dual. Shock 2, Dual. Shock, Eye. Toy. Connectivity. Mbit Ethernetmodemrequires adapter on SCPH 1. USB 1. 1, 1 IEEE 1. Online services. Dynamic Network Authentication System. Best selling game. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas 1. February 2. 00. 99Backwardcompatibility. Play. Station. Predecessor. Play. Station. Successor. Play. Station 3. The Play. Station 2 PS2 is a home video game console that was developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is the successor to the Play. Station, and is the second installment in the Play. Station lineup of consoles. It was released on March 4, 2. Japan, October 2. North America, November 2. Europe, and November 1. Australia. It competed with Segas Dreamcast, Microsofts Xbox, and Nintendos Game. Cube in the sixth generation of video game consoles. Announced in 1. 99. Play. Station 2 was the first Play. Station console to offer backwards compatibility for its predecessors Dual. Shock controller, as well as for its games. The Play. Station 2 is the best selling video game console of all time, selling over 1. Sony in 2. 01. 1. More than 3,8. 74 game titles have been released for the PS2 since launch, and more than 1. Sony later manufactured several smaller, lighter revisions of the console known as Slimline models in 2. Play. Station 3. Even with the release of its successor, the Play. Station 2 remained popular well into the seventh generation and continued to be produced until January 4, 2. Sony finally announced that the Play. Station 2 had been discontinued after 1. Despite the announcement, new games for the console continued to be produced until the end of 2. Final Fantasy XI Seekers of Adoulin for Japan, Pro Evolution Soccer 2. North America and Europe, and FIFA 1. Brazil. HistoryeditThough Sony has kept details of the Play. Station 2s development secret, work on the console began around the time that the original Play. Station was released in late 1. Sony announced the Play. Station 2 PS2 on March 1, 1. The video game console was positioned as a competitor to Segas Dreamcast, the first sixth generation console to be released, although ultimately the main rivals of the PS2 were Nintendos Game. Cube and Microsofts Xbox. The Dreamcast itself launched very successfully in North America later that year, selling over 5. Soon after the Dreamcasts North American launch, Sony unveiled the Play. Station 2 at the Tokyo Game Show on September 2. Sony showed fully playable demos of upcoming Play. Station 2 games including Gran Turismo 2. Gran Turismo 3 A Spec and Tekken Tag Tournament  which showed the consoles graphic abilities and power. The PS2 was launched in March 2. Japan, October in North America and November in Europe. Sales of the console, games and accessories pulled in 2. Dreamcast. 1. 8 Directly after its release, it was difficult to find PS2 units on retailer shelves1. Another option was purchasing the console online through auction websites such as e. Bay, where people paid over a thousand dollars for the console. The PS2 initially sold well partly on the basis of the strength of the Play. Station brand and the consoles backward compatibility, selling over 9. Japan by March 5, 2. This allowed the PS2 to tap the large install base established by the Play. Station  another major selling point over the competition. Later, Sony added new development kits for game developers and more PS2 units for consumers. The PS2s built in functionality also expanded its audience beyond the gamer,2 as its debut pricing was the same or less than a standalone DVD player. This made the console a low cost entry into the home theater market. The success of the PS2 at the end of 2. Sega problems both financially and competitively, and Sega announced the discontinuation of the Dreamcast in March 2. The PS2 remained as the only active sixth generation console for over 6 months, before it would face competition from newer rivals Nintendos Game. Cube and Microsofts Xbox, which were then released. Many analysts predicted a close three way matchup among the three consoles the Xbox having the most powerful hardware, while the Game. Cube was the least expensive console, and Nintendo changed its policy to encourage third party developers. While the Play. Station 2 theoretically had the weakest specification of the three, it had a head start due to its installed base plus strong developer commitment, as well as a built in DVD player the Xbox required an adapter, while the Game. Cube lacked support entirely. While the Play. Station 2s initial games lineup was considered mediocre, this changed during the 2. PS2s sales momentum and held off its newer rivals. Sony also countered the Xbox by temporarily securing Play. 1999 Palomino Pop Up Camper Owners Manual. Station 2 exclusives for highly anticipated games such as the Grand Theft Auto series and Metal Gear Solid 2 Sons of Liberty. Sony cut the price of the console in May 2. US2. 99 to 1. 99 in North America,2. Game. Cube and 1. Xbox. It also planned to cut the price in Japan around that time. It cut the price twice in Japan in 2. In 2. 00. 6, Sony cut the cost of the console in anticipation of the release of the Play. Station 3. 2. 8Sony, unlike Sega with its Dreamcast, originally placed little emphasis on online gaming during its first few years, although that changed upon the launch of the online capable Xbox. Coinciding with the release of Xbox Live, Sony released the Play. Station Network Adapter in late 2. SOCOM U. S. Navy SEALs to demonstrate its active support for Internet play. Sony also advertised heavily, and its online model had the support of Electronic Arts EA EA did not offer online Xbox titles until 2. Although Sony and Nintendo both started out late, and although both followed a decentralized model of online gaming where the responsibility is up to the developer to provide the servers, Sonys moves made online gaming a major selling point of the PS2. In September 2. 00. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, Sony revealed a newer, slimmer PS2. In preparation for the launch of the new models SCPH 7. Sony stopped making the older models SCPH 3. After an apparent manufacturing issue  Sony reportedly underestimated demand  caused some initial slowdown in producing the new unit caused in part by shortages between the time the old units were cleared out and the new units were ready. The issue was compounded in Britain when a Russian oil tanker became stuck in the Suez Canal, blocking a ship from China carrying PS2s bound for the UK.