[mulmen]

As I recall the Xbox had an Ethernet port and Halo supported up to four consoles. I think there were some limitations. Not sure if two teams of 8 were possible but I think 4x4 was. At a minimum I believe dedicated screens were possible in a four player game.

The PS2 had something similar (only two consoles) but it used Firewire because Sony is the Apple of Japan.

[Infernal]

I recall being in an 8 v 8 LAN game, team living room had 2 TVs and team dining room had 2 TVs.

[antifa]

I didn't know 4v4v4v4 was possible, we mostly did 8v8 CTFs.

I gave up on PS2 games because the first few I tried would say 2 or 4 or more players and too many times they meant "1 per PS2" without disclosing that ahead of time where xbox and GC reliably had splitscreen on pretty much any multiplayer game.

[mulmen]

I’m honestly not sure 4v4v4v4 was a thing but I have a memory of doing four way team death match. I could be making things up. That was a long time ago.