PlayStation 2 holds ground vs new rivals

Sony sold almost 300,000 PlayStation 2s in the United States in January, behind only Nintendo's Wii which boasts a motion-sensing controller and sold 436,000 units.rnrnIt beat Microsoft's Xbox 360 (294,000 units) as well as Sony's own PlayStation 3 (244,000 units), according to data from market research firm NPD.

i'd say most of this is because of guitar hero

'cos it's best value for money. and the ps3 will take over in a year or two when it finally gets some decent games and the price comes down. it's a goddamn inevitability