To me it sounds like they are hoping for profitability before April 09, which is actually in line with one of their earlier comments... If they are unsure whether it will happen in the next fiscal year at all then there is no way it will happen as early in the year as April 08.
However I don't see how that is a bad thing... I mean assuming Sony are being optimistic as usual, I would guess they might start profiting on hardware some time in Summer-Autumn 2009... This is a lot faster than PS2, which only started being profitable in 2005.
Oh and "fiscal 2008" is what we are in now, so the Sony statement was in reference to Fiscal 2009, but as they are being optimistic it probably wont be till fiscal 2010 when profit is made [fiscal 2010 starts in April 2009]
