[asciimov]

For me playing at home with a group of friends peaked with Halo on Xbox and Smash on GameCube. Halo let you get 8 friends together on 2 tvs and 2 Xboxes with just an Ethernet cable, you could double those numbers with with a switch.

Games still loaded relatively fast, and you didn’t have to spend hours waiting for downloads.

[NickC25]

There's something that sitting side-by-side with your teammate or opponent that modern online gaming completely misses. It's way more fun, and way more social.