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At Sony's 90th general shareholders meeting in Tokyo today, Kaz Hirai has made a mighty big promise. With PS3 hardware sales a little saggy, he has sworn a blood oath that there will be 380 PlayStation 3 games available by next March. More games, more sales, the thinking goes.

Of the 380, 200 will be boxed, retail titles with the remaining 180 to be downloadable.

March 2008 is nine months away. That means, not counting what is already out, there needs to be a pinch over 40 PS3 games a month between now and then. Which is around ten per week. Which is a lot of games. The Reuters piece isn't exactly clear, and we think Kaz meant that those game releases date back to the start of the fiscal year. Like we said, kinda unclear!

Still, Kaz, good luck with this. Really! Luke Plunkett

Sony to boost PS3 software to reverse slump: Nikkei [Reuters]