Did the PS2 start off as slowly as the PS3 has

[Slothy]

You pretty much said it, though in all honesty, the consols sales didn't really take off right away either. Also, Onimusha was the first killer app for the system. It wasn't on the level of something like MGS2, but it was the first greatest hits title on the system and reached the million sales fairly quickly.

Damn, how could I forget Onimusha? Hell didn't Devil May Cry come out before these games as well. I can't remember.

DMC came out about a month before MGS2, so they were really around the same time frame. That said though, Gran Turismo 3 came out in July 2001, which means it's another killer app that hit prior to the likes of MGS2 and FFX. The PS2 actually had a realy good first year looking back (not to mention a few lesser known classics that I never would have checked out had more high profile games hit at first).

I'm not familiar with top games besides the top rpg's(which I know a lot about).

Well, I happen to know a lot about the non-RPG titles for the PS3 (and keep up to date on the other two enough to know I don't care about 99.9% of the exclusives they're getting).

On the PS3 at least, the high profile exclusives coming out this year include Lair, Warhawk, Heavenly Sword, Ratchet & Clank, Socom: Confrontation, and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. And of course early 2008 should see Killzone 2, Little Big Planet (possibly the most innovative game I've seen so far this generation), MGS4, Gran Turismo 5, and White Knight Story. Of course, this isn't including all of the great titles that are multi-platform, so in short, the coming 12 months should be very good for PS3 owners.