What if 343i removed 4 player split screen multiplayer because they were replacing it with something better. 343i isn’t stupid, they would have NOTHING to gain by removing 4 player splitscreen multiplayer (playing Halo multiplayer with friends at a house/lan/couch halo). My theory as to why 343i removed 4 player split screen is because they are replacing 4 player splitscreen with something better! to improve the “playing Halo multiplayer with friends at a house/lan/couch halo” experience!
What if they have a new system where you can plug in multiple monitors (TV screens) into your Xbox One? Everyone has more than 1 TV or computer at their home. What people can do is gather 4 of their televisions or computer monitors in their house, bring it to their Xbox One and plug it in. This way each of the 4 players at the person’s house can have their own screen! Gone are the days of squinting at a quarter of a screen. This is next gen!
Obviously the Xbox One does not currently have a feature where you can plug in 4 monitors, as it only has one HDMI port for 1 monitor. However, what if every Halo 5: Guardians video game case comes bundled with a extention cable for the Xbox One’s HDMI port to allow it to connect to 4 different monitors for 4 player multiplayer? Kinda like the Nintendo 3DS circle pad pro ( https://store.nintendo.com/ng3/browse/productDetailColorSizePicker.jsp?productId=prod10517 ).
However this is only a theory… 343i might not replace 4-player split screen with that exact idea, but they might do somthing along those lines. They would have NO REASON to completely remove "playing Halo multiplayer with friends at a house/lan/couch halo" from Halo 5: Guardians. They want Halo 5: Guardians to be the best game it can be, because right now PS4 is crushing Xbox One in sales, and unless 343i wants to loose their job, they can’t screw Halo 5 up. For their sake and our sake, I have faith in them that they wouldn’t remove “playing Halo multiplayer with friends at a house/lan/couch halo” without a good reason or a good replacement.
Your idea isn’t bad at all, but its extremely unlikely. I think Microsoft would have to develop something like that, not 343I. We may get two player split screen, and I agree, 4 player split screen is a huge part of what makes Halo Halo, but I honestly don’t want any split screen if they are going to half -Yoink- it like they did in Halo 4 and Halo 2 Anniversary. They had to reduce a lot of stuff for split screen in those titles and it made the experience horrible.
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> > That would be cool, but some of us aren’t exactly affluent enough to own four TV’s…
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> what if you get your tv screen, your laptop screen, and your desktop computer monitor, and your smartglass? thats 4
But that’s smaller than if my bigscreen was just split into 4 panels. And yes, my bigscreen did cost less than 4 tv’s of equivalent screenspace.
Not to mention, there’s no reason why your idea would make the classic way impossible.
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> Smart glass seems like the only logical replacement, unfortunately.
it makes perfect sense! microsoft wants to sell smartglass! so they will force everyone to buy smartglass in order to play halo 4x multiplayer. each player would look at their smartglass screen. and the only way to play halo 5 at a friends house is to bring your smart glass! it all makes sense now!
The physical obstacle to split screen is the game looks better and is too fast to render 4 images at once, how in the hell do you think rendering 4 images onto separate screens could overcome that? A device that could increase the Xbone’s hardware to the level necessary to do this would cost a great deal of money. At least $30 I would wager. They would never give it out free.
I seriously though your OT was sarcasm, making fun of the threads demanding boycotts for lack of splitscreen functionality.
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> The physical obstacle to split screen is the game looks better and is too fast to render 4 images at once, how in the hell do you think rendering 4 images onto separate screens could overcome that? A device that could increase the Xbone’s hardware to the level necessary to do this would cost a great deal of money. At least $30 I would wager. They would never give it out free.
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> I seriously though your OT was sarcasm, making fun of the threads demanding boycotts for lack of splitscreen functionality.
No, my thread is a theory as to why 343i isn’t featuring split screen. It’s probably because they have a better alternative to couch Halo, up Halo 5’s sleeve.
Xbox 360 could run 4x split screen.
Xbox One can run it as well.
Cool theory, but I doubt it’s true. The Xbox one only has one HDMI port. So only possible to output to one TV. There is no way there will be some sort of HDMI box for independent output to multple monitors. HDMI just doesn’t work that way, and the HDMI port on the Xbox one is not some sort of special port that can output 4 screens at once with some sort of compatible break-out box, it’s a standard HDMI port.
Smartglass… even if it were possible to display the game to a tablet or smartphone in real time, the latency would be brutal. Not to mention tablets and smartphones are not an improvement over 1/4 TV screen. Also to mention, Smartglass isn’t a physical product that Microsoft sells. It’s an application for mobile devices that allows control of certain xbox applications. It was never meant to display games in real time.
343 are not capable of optimizing 4 screens vs 1 screen. in Halo 4 this is true, in Halo 1 and 2 anniversary this is true. They’ve failed (to try) to optimize those games for 4 player splitscreen. They essentially render the exact same graphics settings in 4 screens as they do for 1 screen, even thought they should be lowering the graphics settings for 4 screens. The graphics is the exact same in 4 screens as 1 screen, so performance on 4 screens is horrible. It would make sense to lower the graphics quality in 4 screens in order to bring performance to acceptable levels. They didn’t do that, and Digital Foundry slammed them for it. For Halo 5 they just decided to give up and not bother at all.
It’s obvious that 343 think that consumers don’t care about 4 player splitscreen.
Well… I don’t normally play 4 player split-screen. I don’t want them to take it out necessarily, and limit people. But if they put that ability or “power saved” into something better like running the game, graphics, dedicated servers, then I’d rather have those. That being said, I don’t make games, and it probably doesn’t work that way in making stuff. lol
Hate to break it to you buddy, but 343 isn’t bungie. They do not value the couch experience, nor do -Yoink!-. One Xbox per person. One TV per person. One Gold membership per person. No need to program the game to run at 60 fps four times on the same hardware.
It’s gone bro.
But hey, at least we got sprint now /sarc/
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> Cool theory, but I doubt it’s true. The Xbox one only has one HDMI port. So only possible to output to one TV. There is no way there will be some sort of HDMI box for independent output to multple monitors. HDMI just doesn’t work that way, and the HDMI port on the Xbox one is not some sort of special port that can output 4 screens at once with some sort of compatible break-out box, it’s a standard HDMI port.
> Smartglass… even if it were possible to display the game to a tablet or smartphone in real time, the latency would be brutal. Not to mention tablets and smartphones are not an improvement over 1/4 TV screen. Also to mention, Smartglass isn’t a physical product that Microsoft sells. It’s an application for mobile devices that allows control of certain xbox applications. It was never meant to display games in real time.
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> 343 are not capable of optimizing 4 screens vs 1 screen. in Halo 4 this is true, in Halo 1 and 2 anniversary this is true. They’ve failed (to try) to optimize those games for 4 player splitscreen. They essentially render the exact same graphics settings in 4 screens as they do for 1 screen, even thought they should be lowering the graphics settings for 4 screens. The graphics is the exact same in 4 screens as 1 screen, so performance on 4 screens is horrible. It would make sense to lower the graphics quality in 4 screens in order to bring performance to acceptable levels. They didn’t do that, and Digital Foundry slammed them for it. For Halo 5 they just decided to give up and not bother at all.
> It’s obvious that 343 think that consumers don’t care about 4 player splitscreen.
You do realize that 343i didn’t actually develop HCEA and H2A, right? How exactly does that reflect their capability? And even if it did, how do you know how ANY of those games were or were not optimized? Were you on the development teams? Didn’t think so. Sounds like you’re talking out of a certain -Yoink!- of yours.
Frankly, as much as I enjoy split screen, it is absolutely true that a vast minority of their player-base will actually use it. That’s just the way it is.
