That's not what your mom I said. Oh, snap!

Such a shame Zipper decided to turn into sell outs. They made the greatest shooter online game ever for the PS2 (Socom 2) and after that they decided to make clones of other shooter games. Hopefully, another developer has interest in making a great Socom game again.

Not surprising, if you were to list from best to worst Sony's first party studios, Zipper would rate pretty lowly on that list. Wonder who Sony's next acquisition will be? Quantic Dream for me.

Darn I wouldn't want anyone to leave!

This title.... no!

I made a list of accumulated sales per developer for Sony this generation about a year ago.

Zipper were at the bottom of that list.

They've completely failed in the past 5 years to release anything significant to the market, despite having a very large development team (near 200 employees at one point I believe). They've completely, and utterly, underperformed as a studio and probably cost Sony millions to keep running. For the sake of SCE worldwide studios and the provision of funding, I think this move had to be made.

Lol, zipper..
But anyway. Yeah thats pretty sad actually. I loved Socom in Ps2... Not so much on ps3. But I still loved it..

As much as I once loved Zipper, this move makes me glad. They're probably wasting Sony tons of money and the Socom series coud use a developer that is actually willing to try.

Hey, SCE Santa Monica also make good games!

They only acquired them 6 years ago, but this is clearly the right decision in my mind, their games have failed critically and commercially

One does wonder who is to blame, however. If Zipper failed only after Sony bought them outright, was it an issue of the kind of games Sony was making them make? Is it a casualty of poor publisher strategy or a death brought on by studio rot?