If you thought Sony had a hard time with the PS3 until now, you were sadly mistaken. As it turns out, the company has huge plans for the console and I mean "HUGE." Some 380 titles are scheduled for release by March 2008, including some downloadable ones via PlayStation Network. What, you didn't think they'd roll out 380 next-gen titles just like that, did you?

The news came straight from Reuters (India), shockingly revealing some 200 packs of software (not just next-gen games, so chill already!) and 180 downloadable via the Internet. Here's the original post:

"Sony Corp. said on Thursday it expects about 380 new PlayStation 3 titles to become available in the business year to March 2008, on top of more than 100 titles currently on the market.

Of the total, some 200 will be packaged software, while the remaining 180 titles are expected to be downloadable via the Internet, Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer said at the company's general shareholders' meeting.

Sony started selling the PS3 late last year but has seen slow demand so far because of its high price tag and limited availability of attractive software titles."

But all that is going to change, boys and girls. Sony has even bigger plans than what you've read above. By Christmas this year (and let's hope they don't mean December 24), the company has plans of cutting the console's price, possibly even coinciding with the release of PlayStation Home. Such events may even push Sony's rivals (Microsoft and Nintendo) to cut the price on their respective systems (I don't know about the Wii though...), leaving you, the consumer, the sole beneficiary. Well, not really, but better times are ahead, that's what's important.

However, 380 titles sounds an awful lot of releases. I mean, we all get that the PS3 is a fancy piece of machinery and all, but it's a huge amount of titles even for the all powerful, Cell-Processor-enabled PS3. Who knows? Maybe they were thinking of 360 (which is still a lot), but then thought that the number could confuse readers and make them think of Microsoft's machine, and they wouldn't want that now, would they? The number just struck me in the face, honest to God...