Sony's PlayStation Vita handheld faces an uphill struggle, reckons Xbox chief Dennis Durkin.

Speaking in an interview with IndustryGamers, Durkin argued that the handheld market might be too over-crowded to support another new hardware release following the underwhelming 3DS launch.

"I’m not sure I would want to be launching a dedicated portable device right now into that market,” he said.

“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].

"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."

Sony's new machine is due to launch sometime in late 2011 or early 2012.

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