Good. Sony already tainted the SOCOM name enough, first paying Slant Sux to make the abysmal Confrontation, and then making Zipper CoD the hell out of SOCOM 4. I don't think Sony has the talent or vision to make a quality SOCOM title now that they have closed down Zipper, so it's best not to bother.
If they were as smart as people are saying they are, we wouldn't have had SOCOM 4. What Sony wanted was a piece of that FPS MP pie but they neglected to take into account that SOCOM was never anything like CoD or Battlefield and never would be. It's not "smart" for them to say SOCOM 5 is too risky. It's something they only realize because they killed the franchise. So if they were "smart", Confrontation and SOCOM 4 wouldn't have happened in the first place.
You don't have to be CoD or BF to be relevant. There are lots of online MP games that don't put up those numbers but still have dedicated, active fanbases.







