(Still to be Edited. Think of this as Early Access)

The numbers are in. The tickets have been counted. The chickens are fresh and ready for consumption. Who's on top? Your friend and mine: Sony.

"Wow Dude! The PS4 is turning out to be just like the PS2!"

Instead of just taking this claim for granted, or letting it run in one ear and out the other like I do with most of my co-worker's thoughts, I thought I would investigate this claim a little further. Is the PS4 like the PS2?

In terms of the first 7 to 8 months sales, the PS4 is crushing the PS2. The PS2 sold about 3.5 million units after seven months* while the PS4 is just about double that. Will this last? Will the PS4 match or better the PS2's lifetime sales? I don't know. Maybe. It could. Personally I just don't like thinking that far ahead. Hurts my brain. Either way. Sure. They are both sales GIANTS so it's hard not to see the PS4/PS2 comparison from this perspective.

Taking sales numbers out of the lemon meringue pie, I still had this gut feeling that the PS2 was such a different animal than the PS4. So much so that I find it hard to believe that they're even made by the same company. I just don't want to compare them. It keeps me up all night. I just toss and turn until the sheets have been pulled loose and the mattress is exposed. Then I think, "But of course they're different. The PS2 was 2000. The PS4 is 2014. Times have changed dude." So I thought I would just examine the games of the first 8 months on both consoles. Cause, games are games. Let's take a look at some notable ones.

PS4 (not including games released on PS3 before launch of PS4):

• Resogun
• Infamous Second Son
• Killzone Shadowfall
• Knack
• Wolfenstein
• Murdered Soup Suspects
• MLB the Show
• Tomb Remastered
• Last Remastered

PS2:

• Madden 2001
• Timesplitters
• Armored Core 2
• Dynasty Warriors 2
• Tekken Tag Tournament
• Midnight Club Street Racing
• Ridge Racer V
• Smuggler's Run
• SSX
• MotoGP
• Sky Odyssey
• Theme Park Roller Coaster
• Fifa 2001
• CoolBoarders 2001
• Red Faction
• Zone of the Enders
• Army Men Air attack 2
• Omnimusha
• Shadow of Destiny
• Star WArs Star Fighter
• Dark Cloud
• NBA Street
• Gran Turismo 3

Obviously many titles have been left out from both lists. And really here, I'm not trying to drill home or highlight an opinion that the PS2 had more appealing games in the first 8 months, it's more I want to showcase live for you all right now some key titles for both of these consoles to hopefully spawn a game centered discussion about these quite different generations.

If someone asks me what I think of when I hear the word "PS2" I don't think sales machine; I think massive gameplay variety. The PS2 didn't have massive variety in its games when it's library got HUGE either, as this list shows it had massive variety from the get go. Whether this was planned or purely a coincidence doesn't matter. In the first year of the PS2 I could play a dark shooter, a realistic racing game, an arcade racing game, an RPG, a star wars game, realistic or street basketball game, etc, etc... And it's not only that there were ostensible gameplay differences between games (soccer vs RPG game), but the variety came in art-styles, tones, color pallets and gameplay mechanics.

There is an ultra serious mood that hangs over the games on the PS4 (with the exception of Knack) like a bad case of fog over San Francisco every summer morning. And like the fog, I'm waiting for it to burn off. Now, I'm not totally anti-ultra serious. I enjoy a game like this every now and then, and it's imperative that there are a few titles like this in any consoles library. Look at the Wii U, it REALLY needs one. Even though Infamous and Killzone are technically different types of games, I lump them in the same category because of their similar dark and serious moods, likewise with Tomb Raider, Wolfenstein and even the Last of Us.

If you took Indie titles away from the PS4, there is almost no variety at all. Just one big bowl of seriousness and almond milk, every day for breakfast for the rest of your life. With the PS2, you had no idea what was around the corner gamewise; with the PS4 it isn't really a secret. I'm not talking about the internet and information being leaked or shown off. I can already tell you now there are more third person/first person shooters, pseudo realistic sims and sports games, RPG's, and third person action games with an ultra serious tone that no ones heard of that are being developed or in the works to be developed right now. We are going to get more of this and very little of anything else. Recently there was an article about Crash and Daxter possibly making a revival on the PS4. Which I hope for, but know will never happen.

Maybe I will be proven wrong and someday this dark fog over the PS4 will burn off. But sales are telling me it won't. The gamers of today are different than the gamers of 2000. Whatever Sony has been doing thus far for the PS4 will most likely continue.

*According to Forbes