There's a big buzz today around an HTML comment that someone's discovered in the source code for search.secondlife.com - it reads "placeholer page for XBOX, PS3, and iPhone versions of client when they launch next real soon now". The idea of Second Life running on an iPhone isn't new, of course - Comverse has already shown its technology to make this happen - but it's the first time there's been any kind of (seeming) official plan from Linden Lab to make its virtual world accessible to consoles.
Is it true though? Taking Second Life to PS3 would be an intriguing strategy, not least because it would pit Linden Lab’s world head to head with Sony’s own Home virtual world, which has been much delayed but is due to launch later this year. There’s clearly a question around whether Second Life would come off worse in the comparison too - Home is being built directly for the PS3, and with many of the interface and behaviour learnings taken from seeing Second Life’s mistakes.
Anyway, it’s dangerous to read too much into an HTML comment, which may just have been inserted by a mischievous coder. Still, it should open the debate around where Second Life is going, and whether it needs to expand onto new platforms.
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