If this isn’t the answer to everything I’ve been talking about with the abandonment of split-screen, I don’t know what is. That means Halo 5 can get splits-screen back, Destiny fireteams can roll together in the same room on one TV, and so on. Literally all these new games that have banished split-screen from their feature list can now be played via couch co-op. The implications for this are kind of crazy. Obviously, the bigger the TV, the better. Skreens can also be used for literal picture-in-picture functionality, like watching cable orĪpple TV alongside a game being played. And it’s not just for split-screen multiplayer. The device does this with no lag, supposedly, thanks to some patent-pending tech. Rather, this is essentially a hyper-advanced form of picture-in-picture, that TV feature of old which allows you to display multiple inputs simultaneously, but here you can re-arrange the layout of the splitscreen yourself. So yeah, obviously the thing wasn’t going to alter the fundamental DNA of these games to allow for split-screen in titles that weren’t built for it.
