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Microsoft thinks PlayStation Vita will fail, bets on Windows Phone 7

<div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Sony-PlayStation-Vita-Next-Gen-Portable-Gaming-Device" border="0" height="288" src="http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/3453/sonyplaystationvitanext.jpg" title="Sony-PlayStation-Vita-Next-Gen-Portable-Gaming-Device" width="170" /></div> Xbox COO Dennis Durkin spoke to Industry Gamers about their view of the mobile gaming market, including the recently launched and very powerful PlayStation Vita. "I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device right now into that market. I think the DS – if you look at the 3DS, certainly versus people’s expectation’s it’s not been as successful as people would have thought. So that’s a very crowded market and a very, very red ocean right now with a lot of change happening. So I’m not sure it’s [a good idea]," he said. Microsoft has said repeatedly that Windows Phone 7 was their portable gaming device, and there are increasing evidence of ever deeper integration and capabilities including multiplayer gaming and in-game voice chat in Windows Phone 7 Mango. "You only have a certain number of bets you can make as a company and you have to decide what you want to put your wood behind and I’m just not sure that that’s a place (a dedicated handheld console) that I would put mine." Via <a href="http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/xbox-exec-doubtful-of-playstation-vita-success/" target="_blank">Attackofthefanboy</a>