Yeah but that was the developer. They have nothing to do with how a game is advertised. 

1.) Poor reviews
2.) PSN outage
Pretty much it...

The reasons why it flopped;

- Average score
- PSN outage
- Many games before and after it's release

Socom's brand was ruined with Confrontation...and then because this game didn't light Reviewers on fire, it didn't redeem the franchise

i agree with everything the OP stated, except for MOVE, waste of time?? Gurrellia Games says hi, Killzone3 has a good campaign, good online, good visuals, good frame rate, and even threw in some 3D with the Move controls working perfectly, it can be done people.

I think it has to do with SOCOM 4 being just another face in the crowd... it really did nothing convince anybody to get off B ops or MW or BF

I think it's biggest hurt is that it's a series which only sells in America, and the PS3 just doesn't hold as much weight in America as it used to. I'm one of the few EU Socom fans and the game is utterly dead here, only the core from the Socom 2 days still buy and play the game. It did okay imo as I really see no reason the game should sell all that well.

I enjoy it and still think it's the best online shooter thing on PS3 (Don't enjoy first person / respawn) but Zipper did a lot wrong. It ended up this mishmash of part COD and part Socom and didn't really please either side in the end. Think this is a series Sony would have more success just doing a more, back to it's roots PSN release with a constant supply of DLC.

I played the first 2 socom's,but after that the series seemed to go down hill.

Fixed.

I only played the first socom. So im not exactly worried if this series dies out or not.