The future of gaming is lonely (and online only)

Last week, 343 Studios announced that Halo 5: Guardians would be dropping split screen co-op for the campaign mode, joining the vast number of only-online multiplayer games that seem to be the status quo for this console generation. Popular multiplayer shooters, like Destiny, Titanfall, and any recent Battlefield game, also have made the same decision to nix the option to play with friends on the same television. Video game publishers, it appears, are putting an end to couch play.

In most of these cases, the issue is simply one of hardware. Split-screen multiplayer means twice as much processing taking place locally to accommodate each player’s screen, which means most of these games simply can’t run split-screen on the hardware that’s...

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