[giantg2]

"Gaming companies contributed to the death of LAN parties too. They killed the "split-screen" gameplay that would support 2-4 players on the same machine."

Even consoles suck with this now. It seems like none of the big games support more than 2 players.

[Farbklex]

Exactly. I wanted a coop split screen shooter for the PS 5. I checked out 4 games. None had coop splitt screen. 2 were alway online which would require me to get a PS Plus subscription.

Games were: Back 4 Blood, Call of Duty Vanguard, Rainbow Six Extraction, Alien Fire Team Elite.

I still invite friends for Xbox 360 LANs. Just connect two consoles and play with 8 players. It is super fun and the hardware is dirt cheap.

[godzillabrennus]

360 consoles are so cheap right now… Facebook market has them by me for as little as $20 with a controller.

[giantg2]

Even many of the 360 games only support 2 locally, especially the later ones.