Video Games - Playstation 2 vs Playstation 3

Playstation 2 was released back in 2000, a marked improvement on its predecessor, Playstation.

Playstation 2 stormed the video game market and floored Nintendo and Sega. Playstation 2 was the king of home video games league for the system with the ability to play back over 1,600 games.

In addition, Playstation 2 has the widest selection of video game titles ever. Some of its most popular titles include:

• Grand Theft Auto
• Gran Turismo
• Final Fantasy
• Medal of Honor
• Metal Gear Solid
• Resident Evil
• Tekken
• Madden NFL
• Crash Bandicoot
• Sly Cooper

And hundreds of others.

And then the promise of Playstaton 3, a promise to totally revolutionalize home video game playing, with advanced graphics and reality memory. So how do the PS3 promises stack up against PS2.

PS2 - PS3 Side By Side Comparison

Playstation 2 Features

Standard Playstation 2 features:

• play commercial DVDs and CDs
• two controllers
• multi-tap connectivity for up to eight simultaneous players
• online connectivity
• separate network adaptor
• separate 20GB hard drive
• wireless controllers
• driving controllers
• and Eye Toy a device used in virtual reality games.

Playstation 3 Promises

Here are a few things that Sony expects to deliver with Playstation 3:

• higher processing speeds
• more powerful graphic capabilities
• lifelike, cinematic-quality computer-generated graphics.
• PS3 will play back CDs, DVDs, PS2 video games, and PlayStation One video games.
• Sony promises to make a media center of your living room
• new video games on Sony's new proprietary Blu-ray disc
• the Blu-ray disc can hold more than five DVDs worth of content
• online capability
• wireless connection to the PSP
• support up to seven game controllers

and finally, exciting and stunning new video games whose release are lined up to coincide with the release of Playstation 3. So how well did Sony stand up to its promise - find out as we teardown a Playstation 3 Console.

NEXT: Playstation 3 Revealed By Teardown

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