Jay520 said:
Jexy said:
I think it's dead. My good friend is a HUGE socom fan, but he hasn't liked any of the ones on the PS3. Hates them actually. And checking the reviews, neither have many others. Socom 4 with a 6.9 avg (terrible for a game), Confrontation with a 6.3 avg... and one barely above a million, and the other well under... that's the sign of a series dying. I'm sure they lost money on both of them, what with everything that goes into a game like that. But it's a classic case of what I was saying before about budget cuts. I don't know if that's what happened to the Socom series... but it sure seems like it. Like production $ or time was cut during the making of them but they just crapped them out anyway.
If Sony were smart, they would cut it off instead of throwing more money at it. I mean shoot, they are supposedly selling the PS3 at a small profit now and their division STILL lost that much? I gotta think a lot of that is for software, not just hardware like the PSP and PS3 etc
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It ain't dead, just stupid developers making stupid decisions. If the developers stuck to the classic Socom core and made a good game, it would be successful.
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They've lost their fan base for Socom. It isn't coming back anytime soon when you crap out 2 bad games in a row over the span of what, 5 years? Not to mention that many of the Socom fans haven't even played these two newer ones in longer than that. The sales show the truth. Like someone said, Sony can't listen to its hardcore fans on gaming websites like they have been. They need to start making intelligent BUSINESS decisions or they won't be around for much longer to make ANY games, good or bad. Think about it, the Socom developers made mistakes and put out crappy games that ruined the franchise. My friend got a PS3 to play the new Socoms on. He won't be getting a PS4 and making the same mistake. If anything, he would get a PS4 for whatever library it happens to have, or features... but not because of Socom anymore. That ship has sailed. And judging by the sales, it has for most of its fans.
