Microsoft is very pleased with their technological investments, doubting the potential success of Sony and Nintendo's portable gaming devices. Dennis Durkin, Xbox COO expressed skepticism about Sony’s launch of the PlayStation Vita saying, “I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device right now into that market. If you look at the 3DS, certainly versus people’s expectations it’s not been as successful as people would have thought... 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 that I would put mine.”
Durkin went on to pat himself and his employer on the back. “I feel very good about our relative position relative to both of our competitors. I certainly wouldn’t want to trade hands with either of them.” Microsoft has good reason to be confident, as the Xbox and Kinect figures have been very high. It will be interesting to see the sales numbers for June as the PSN outage and E3 2011 are expected to affect the figures.
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