At GDC 2010, I was surprised to learn that SOCOM 4 was a Fall 2010-bound title. Not because it looked bad--it didn't at all. But because of the PlayStation Move motion integration, which was just added in. It's gotta be hard to make sure your game will work for both control styles within a matter of months, right? But regardless of whether I was right or wrong on that (and let's face it, a billion things need tweaked during development), SOCOM 4 has become a 2011 title.

Zipper confirmed this news on its official blog, stating that it didn't "want to take any shortcuts," therefore the game has been pushed back from 2010. No specifics were given, so keep that in mind in light of my PS Move spiel. Also, no release-month window was thrown out there, although I'm sure it'll hit in Q1 with every other game on the planet. 
 

At GDC 2010, I was surprised to learn that SOCOM 4 was a Fall 2010-bound title. Not because it looked bad--it didn't at all. But because of the PlayStation Move motion integration, which was just added in. It's gotta be hard to make sure your game will work for both control styles within a matter of months, right? But regardless of whether I was right or wrong on that (and let's face it, a billion things need tweaked during development), SOCOM 4 has become a 2011 title.

Zipper confirmed this news on its official blog, stating that it didn't "want to take any shortcuts," therefore the game has been pushed back from 2010. No specifics were given, so keep that in mind in light of my PS Move spiel. Also, no release-month window was thrown out there, although I'm sure it'll hit in Q1 with every other game on the planet. 
 

Hope Zipper can bring SOCOM back to it's rightful place. A bit of extra polish won't hurt, especially after the mess that was the Confrontation launch.

" WHAT HAVE THE POLISH EVER DONE TO YOU "

Desert Glory for ever!

I am actually wondering what I want to buy for my PS3 this year now? 
 
Socom was one of the few exclusives that I had tagged to buy this year.

Thats cool, still Socom never really did it for me and this doesn't look like its changing...anything.

Confrontation, in my opinion, wasn't a bad game. In fact I'll take it a step further by saying that Socom Confrontation was the best Socom game - EVER! Sure it had one of the worst launches in video game history, but despite those mistakes, it took the franchise to another level in terms of character customizations, and map design. Zipper Inc., on the other hand, is forever remembered with the dreaded, and eternally buggy, Socom 3 and Socom: Combined Assault. I hope they've learned their lesson(s) with the development of MAG (with what to do and what not to do server side) so that Socom 4 can be the better game. This extra time, however, is for the best.

This delay really shouldn't surprise anyone. If they're smart, they'll keep it out of the crowded Q1, and release it spring/summer 2011.

This means my main reason for getting move around launch is no longer coming out around launch. Now I have to decide if it's worth it just to play Tiger Woods =/.

I've always wanted to get into SOCOM, but it seems like the type of game that you can only compete in if you have a solid real life group of people who are seriously into it -- and finding enough people in real life who are into the same game (or even the same genre and console) can be a bit difficult. 
 
It also seems a bit like a game you have to dedicate yourself to and keep in your "I only play three games religiously" rotation.

At least MAG might continue some support until SOCOM 4 is out. That SOCOM was announced soon after MAG came out only meant bad news as far as long term support for MAG, whatever Zipper claims otherwise.

I'm a new addition to the MAG online universe and my hope is that after SOCOM is released that Zipper still continues to support MAG. Nothing against SOCOM, I just dig MAG.

boo

God i can't remember the last time i played a SOCOM game.