Sony's new service, PlayStation Home may not be that new after all. I mean, it's new for us but not for Sony. It seems that the company has been thinking about it since May 27th 2005. A post made on a PlayStation forum that exact date was dug up by EvilAvatar. It suggests that Sony had plans then for something that resembles amazingly well what we call today PlayStation Home:

"SCEA and SOE are developing MMORPG(something similiar to ffxi) style online service for PS3 right now. It will have online pack which it comes with HDD and the online software. You can go online and chat with people like mmorpg style. Your stats will have the list of games you have and scores(or ranks) for each game, and other great things. And if you want to look for someone to play online for certain game, you have to go to this certain area (or town) for that specific game or the game will automatically takes you to that town. Sony thinks "hyper links" technology is a history. They want to create a "virtual world" for PS3 online service where people can actually interact eachother like mmorpg style. There are more great details, but this is all I can get for now. I'm not expecting you to believe me."

Of course the person writing this forgot to excuse himself/herself for the grammar but that's not what we're discussing right now. What we're talking about is that Sony has probably had PS Home in the basement for two years now and did a very good job at not spilling the beans on it. The words PlayStation and Home don't appear in the text, thus indicating that it may not be this exact service the author was talking about, but what else are we to believe? No other service from Sony resembles that description. What if they're working on world domination as we speak? Let's hope it doesn't take another 2 years for us to find out then, huh?