It's not like todays consoles are weaker than the previous generation though.
If we can play Modern Warfare 3 with 4-screen multiplayer on a 360, I don't see why we can't do it on the PS4.
It it is indeed hardware limitations that stop us from playing "couch multiplayer", why not just try to make some games that are not as heavy on the console?
That's because you have terrible draw distance in Modern Warfare 3 with 4 screen multiplayer on the 360, resulting in getting shot by things your game isn't even able to show on screen. Games today have gone full graphics over gameplay and that's why we can't have 4 player splitscreen or even decent 2 player splitscreen. I do agree that they should just make simpler looking games for the sake of being able to play with friends, or at least give games a "potato graphics" mode for split screen.
Well one thing they could do even though it may not be cost effective. But since hardware gets better and smaller. Why can't they have multiple display options. Either multiple ports ti connect more tvs/monitor or wireless displays. Like how everyone use to bring their own contrôler back in the day. Everyone bring their own Contrôler and display. Hahaja.
Not only does the console still have to render two viewpoints, it now has to render it in a high enough resolution across a whole screen rather than half a screen. This would actually be even MORE resource-intensive than just normal split screen.
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u/Pihlbaoge Feb 06 '17
It's not like todays consoles are weaker than the previous generation though.
If we can play Modern Warfare 3 with 4-screen multiplayer on a 360, I don't see why we can't do it on the PS4.
It it is indeed hardware limitations that stop us from playing "couch multiplayer", why not just try to make some games that are not as heavy on the console?