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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Keith Stuart

PS3: launching in numbers... with lots of games

So what if they haven't actually started building them yet - Sony is still making confident noises about PS3. Yesterday Arstechnica.com reported that the company has reiterated plans to ship four million next-gen consoles by the close of the year and another two million by the end of March 2007. That's still only six million consoles to feed significant global demand, of course, but lets not be pedantic.

More recently, Reuters - among others - has covered Sony's announcement that it would be showing off 27 PS3 games at the upcoming Tokyo Game Show. Gamespot goes one further, listing the playable demos on offer allegedly including Ridge Racer 7, Devil May cry 4, MotorStorm, the latest Metal Gear Solid, Heavenly Sword (pictured) and the one everybody is watching, Mahjong Taikai IV. It's an impressive line-up bolstered by a generous handful of PSP titles.

Now, if they could just get round to actually manufacturing the consoles...

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