Yes

They just complain that it is so difficult for consoles to be able to handle rendering multiple screens at once, and a certain scale, blah blah blah, our system is already pushed to the limit...look, it's O.K....And just O.K. to use that reason once, but the thing that games need so much  more of, options.

I wish more games were split screen co-op. Heck thats why I buy games. So I can play them with my friends who are sitting in the room with me. I find it just more fun. Currently my friends and I are having a blast with the new Ghostbusters game for the wii. Its split screen co-op!!!!

Here I go with the old school elitism again. I was playing online games when the N64 was released, yay Quake Team Fortress.

That being said, it's not so much online gaming that is killing single console multiplayer as much as it is the ease of connecting with modern consoles. Back in the Quake Mega TF days, installation of the game was a pain, and getting it to work online even moreso. It easily took a few hours to install and set up for online play. Meanwhile nowadays any joe can hook up and be playing online with their Xbox in minutes. As such it has finally gotten the appeal to the masses, so that is being catered to.

Of course, you could always do the really geeky thing and LAN party. I miss sitting in a room with four friend, all with our (desktop) computers hooked up, all jumping on the same team in an online game (Ghost Recon was a favorite). You get to all be together, and you kick everyone's asses.

A lot of games just dont have co-op designed into the game.  When you make a game, you gotta design co-op in from the very beginning or else it wont be fun.  And with game development cycles already taking multiple years for AAA titles, often it just can't fit into the schedule to get multiplayer that is fun in the game...or they'd rather focus on polishing up single player so that it is fun.

Also, pushing split screens is pretty hardware intensive mostly because of the graphics involved.  A lot of the games that still support split screen, you'll notice a significant drop in texture quality and all that when you do play it split screen.  This happens because you lose a LOT of the optimizations used in 3D rendering techniques today when you add multiple viewports.  Developers also spend a lot of time pushing the hardware as hard as they can with a single viewport...adding another just makes it fairly hard without compromising the single player experience.  Forcing players to play online rather than split screen solves all of this because each system can handle their own viewports independantly.

Wahahahaha what do they call it? Oh yeah: PROGRESS.

Online gaming ftw!

First of all, buy an UNO deck.

Secondly, get Halo, Call of Duty, Killzone, Castle Crashers, or whatever any thing you want.  If you want game that can be played physically, buy it at your local Target or Wal-Mart, otherwise, just make sure that on the back of any other game you buy, it says, "2 Players."

I want my own screen. The dynamics of a split-screen always screw with the graphics and scaling.