People, it's very simple, the two reasons it failed are painfully obvious:
- It took everything that made SOCOM "SOCOM" and threw them away, in favor of jumping on the COD bandwagon, and it failed miserably in that aspect.
- The PSN outage didn't help.
A lesser reason:
- Confrontation didn't exactly leave the best impression on future SOCOM games. Mind you, even Confrontation was more faithful to the SOCOM formula than 4 was.
Rockstar: Announce Bully 2 already and make gamers proud!
Kojima: Come out with Project S already!