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Sony Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida has explained why the oft-requested cross-game chat isn’t possible on PS3, Turns out, the main reason has something to do with memory restrictions.

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“No, really not any new announcements to put on that. We know that it’s a huge thing out there. We have continued to do much R&D in the area, but we don’t have anything to announce right now.” – SCE Europe boss Andrew House on whether cross-game chat is still planned for PS3 or not despite Vita getting the tech (via CVG).

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe boss Andrew House has said that Cross-Game Chat is a “side issue”.

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Update: Sony has gotten back with us regarding cross-game chat being implemented in a future update. The response is below.

Original: Cross Game Chat is not part of Sony’s PlayStation Plus service and was never intended to be, apparently.

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According to this, OPM US are rumouring cross-game chat will be a premium feature for the PSN when Sony introduces a subscription plan for the service at some point in the year.

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PS3 firmware 3.10 may not contain cross-game chat, but PSN product manager James Thorpe wrote on the EU PS Blog that there is hope to cling to.

“I wish I could just give you a date, I really do!! Trust me when I say that as soon as I hear from ‘up top’ I will be shouting about it and making myself the most popular person on the blog,” he wrote. “I hope, like you all do, that its sooner rather than later.”

Cross-game chat has been floating about in the rumor mill for a while.

On our end, a reliable source told us it was coming, and then Naughty Dog let it slip that it was coming.

Hurry up then Sony. Please.

Via Kotaku.

Rumors over on the N4G forums state that PS3 cross-game voice chat’s being held back because of EA, which has supposedly threatened to pull support for PS3 should the service occur.

To make a long story short, EA has confirmed to Kotaku that the allegations are false.

“Not no-how, not no-way did that ever happen,” stated Jeff Brown, EA’s vice president of corporate communications. “This is a total fabrication – total nonsense. We think voice chat is an extremely cool feature and added it to Madden/ PS3.

“We support cross-game voice on other systems and would be happy to do that on any console.”

Sony’s senior director of corporate communications Patrick Seybold also responded, stating that the rumor was “frankly not true. ”

Hit the links for the full thing.