Who would have thought that the PS3’s most requested feature is only possible on its upcoming handheld brother, the PlayStationVita?

Sony revealed the Vita’s full specifications last week at Gamescom; and according to Sony Worldwide studios President Shuhei Yoshida, the PlayStation Vita will ship with 512MB of RAM that will allow the system to actually support the much-wanted cross-game chat function with the Vita’s Party feature. He had also said that the Vita actually has more RAM than the PS3.

The PS3 on the other hand will never be able to do it as the system only has 256MB. And when a player starts a game, all of the system’s available memory is dedicated to that game, which negates any chance of multitasking. That means, there is literally no memory left to do any voice-chat outside of the game that is being played.

In an interview with Eurogamer, SCE Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida said this about PS3 cross game chat:

 “Once a game gets RAM we never give it back, it’s not possible to retrofit something like that after the fact.” 

Well, at least players can still enjoy the cross-game chat feature on their Vitas, since it’s never going to be added to the PS3 in the future.