Think about it. If you have multiple players sharing the same screen, obviously there’s going to be more going on and you’ll need more screen to compensate for that. Good luck enjoying a frenetic session of Overcooked 2 on a laptop or even a 43” TV. But with a luxurious 120” screen, everything becomes bigger, bolder, and clearer, matching up naturally with the viewing angles of our eyesight.
Gaming projectors have become quite popular with Nintendo Switch users, because Nintendo games pretty much all support local co-op and multiplayer. Titles like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity were designed with local competitive play in mind. Plus the usually colorful and bright look of Nintendo-focused titles goes very well with projectors.
It’s not just Nintendo, though. On Xbox, the entire Halo Master Chief Collection now supports split screen, and you want each part of that screen to be as big as possible, because Halo multiplayer is ruthless. On Xbox and PlayStation consoles, major titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War feature split screen local play, which comes in especially handy during the zombies mode. And then we have developers like Hazelight Studios, that only develop multiplayer co-op titles. They released A Way Out and soon It Takes Two. Both games require two players and work superbly in local split screen on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation consoles.
So you see, split screen and local multiplayer remain a big deal, just like in the 1980s!