Miyamoto: Vita needs games

Nintendo luminary Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken out against the PlayStation Vita, commenting that it currently is not a "very strong product."

Speaking to Edge magazine, Miyamoto compared Sony's new handheld to Nintendo's 3DS, noting that they seem to have similar failings.

"[The Vita is] obviously a very high-spec machine, and you can do a lot of things with it," said Miyamoto, "but I don't really see the combination of hardware and software that really makes a strong product."

"When we launched the 3DS hardware we didn't have Super Mario 3D Land, we didn't have Mario Kart 7, we didn't have Kid Icarus: Uprising," he pondered. "We were striving to have all of these ready for the launch, but we weren't able to deliver them all at that time."

"We were kind of hoping that people would, nevertheless, buy into the product, find 3DS hardware promising, but looking back we have to say we realise the key software was missing when we launched the hardware."

The Vita hasn't been doing startlingly well since it launched, having been outsold by its predecessor - the PSP - and even the Wii in the weeks after it hit shelves.

The 3DS, however, hasn't been doing too badly. After a price cut last year it's been topping the hardware sales charts in Japan every week.