Miyamoto Takes Aim at PS Vita

<p>Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto is not very impressed with the software offerings on the PS Vita&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s a very hi-spec machine&comma; but I don’t see the combination of software and hardware that makes a strong product&comma;” Miyamoto said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The comment from Miymoto seems a little hypocritical considering the 3DS went through a very similar software dry spell when the system launched a little over a year ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When we launched the 3DS hardware we didn’t have Super Mario 3D Land&comma; we didn’t have Mario Kart 7&comma; we didn’t have Kid Icarus&colon; Uprising&period; We were striving to have all of these ready for the launch&comma; but we weren’t able to deliver them at that time&comma;” he admitted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We were kind of hoping that people would&comma; nevertheless&comma; buy into the product&comma; find 3DS hardware promising&comma; but looking back we have to say we realize the key software was missing when we launched the hardware&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>That admission from Miyamoto takes out most of the sting from the comments aimed at Sony&period; At most it seems to be a jab at Sony for making the same mistakes Nintendo made&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thatvideogameblog&period;com&sol;2012&sol;05&sol;04&sol;wheres-the-software-miyamoto-on-ps-vita&sol;">That Video Game Blog<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;