The PS Vita already has voice chat and text chat through its built-in Party application.

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The good news for the pair, who got started on the strength of a chat at a mate's engagement party, is that they've made rapid headway with critics.

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Mr Nagatsuma, meanwhile, has become a star of the television chat shows and has helped revive the fortunes of his unhappy party, whose members until recently speculated about its very survival.

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