What you really want to know

Baffled by Z-buffers? Flummoxed by floating points? You probably just want to know how good the PlayStation 2 is going to be. Here’s a list of the features we all wanted to know about, without all the squiggly bits (figures in brackets are for the original PlayStation):

* 300MHz main clock speed (33.86MHz)
* 32Mb RAM (2Mb plus 1Mb video RAM)
* 3.2Gb per second Memory Bus Bandwidth (132Mb per second)
* 20 million fully textured polygons per second (360,000)
* 5.7Gb DVD-ROM (650Mb CD-ROM)

In addition, it has been confirmed that PlayStation 2 will be backwardly compatible, so you’ll be able to play all your old favourites and even use the lovely Dual Shock controller.

But don’t just take Future Gamer’s word for it, check out the three videos of the PlayStation 2 in action, as shown at the recent Sony news conference:

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