2. By all accounts, Dreamcast wsa expected to surpass sony and Nintendo in tecni-cal capability because it would utilize the newest graphics, memory, and microproces-360 million instructions per second-about equal to the fastest of Intel corporation's pentium II processors. It would also come with equipped with a 3-D graphics chip based on NEC's power VR 3-D chips for PCs. Sega's Dreamcast player was expected to have four game controllers for as many as four plyers, with a small video screen on each controller so a player could, for example, pick a play in a sports game without revealing it to opposing players. Dreamcast was also expected to employ a high-speed CD-ROM drive.