I suppose this is the end of the series, as one of the devs said in an interview that this is (something like this, memory bugs me) "the last chapter of the saga".
I don't hope so though, they can still go one step further. (Emperor of the universe or something).
Or they just can go and take their eyes on a different gang, or just a different part of the saints.
But really it'll be disappointing if they would stop making this kind of game.
Oh yeah and in the interview with Steve Jaros, Steve said that they won't be doing any layered clothes because of some reasons with the NPCs. The NPCs in SRIII and SRIV have all their own mesh, while all the NPCs, and the player character, had the same skeleton. 'Which actually gave them the reason to use that system of clothing.' I suppose, now that all NPCs have their own mesh, which is _purely_ to have better and smoother animations, there's "no_reason_anymore" to utilize that system. Which, to me, is _total_bullshit_.
That system won't be there anymore for the NPCs, but that doesn't mean the player shouldn't be able to have layered clothing...
Personally the lack of layered clothing isn't a huge deal breaker for me, the main issue I have with the clothing system in SR3 is that a large majority of the outfits just kinda suck. I would certainly love to see layered clothing make a return but a higher priority would be just getting decent clothes to begin with. It would also be nice if we could choose effects for the clothing like the mod on this site which gives them a leather/shiny effect.
Also I don't believe SR 3.5 is the last game in the franchise