...on SOCOM forums.
In the real world,
it comes up occasionally.
And again, I'm not saying 'no' to SOCOM. If it happens, yay. If not, aww, but it is what it is.
What I'm saying is that this idea that SOCOM is the missing puzzle piece in Sony's master plan because without SOCOM, Sony is without a military shooter for its players to enjoy because Third Party games somehow don't count, that is delusional. (Also, the specific post I responded to that said Sony must bring back SOCOM because MS bought up Doom and Quake and Rage, that seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of what SOCOM was and why it ever succeeded.)
Side-note, but part of the reason why people still talk about SOCOM with some hope is because rumors came out that Guerrilla was working on SOCOM. I have no idea if there's any validity to that (they seem to be a funny choice to make an American military shooter, but okay, they're talented and have a nice engine, could be good,) but before that, SOCOM was pretty safely considered retired, as it's been gone for 10 years now, almost as long for the studio that made it, and it's not really the kind of game that Sony makes these days. Without that rumor, SOCOM is a past-tense conversation for two generations of game platforms now.