It's been lost in all the hype over this holiday season's console wars, but the reigning king of the living room is still Sony and the PlayStation-- both versions, in fact.

IGN has a story that puts sales of the PS2 and PS1 combined pretty close to the numbers being claimed for the Xbox and the GameCube-- not bad considering the PS2 was last year's big winner, and the PS1 is long in the tooth indeed:

According to SCEA's internal sales data, there were more than 317,000 PlayStation 2 units and 100,000 PS one consoles sold through to consumers during the week of November 19, with PS2 sales being up 62% from the previous week. Meanwhile, during the week of November 26, there were more than 321,00 PS2 units and 100,000 PS one units sold.

The current console battle is really a battle for second place.