When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was considered adaptable for missile guidance, briefly forcing anyone exporting more than one console to seek government approval
For a few strange months in 2000, Sony’s new games console sat awkwardly on the same US export-control list as cruise-missile guidance computers — because the Emotion Engine inside it really was that fast.
