: From the article Digital Foundry: Are there certain givens about a Halo
: game that put limitations on the tech upgrades? Traditionally you've
: always supported split-screen, for example, whereas the majority of FPS
: titles are online-only for multiplayer.

: Chris Tchou: Absolutely, it would simplify my job immensely if we could drop
: split-screen, not to mention give me more time to work on cool new things.
: But it's such an integral part of the Halo experience that there's no way
: we'd ever drop it! With split-screen, every piece of functionality in the
: render engine has to be able to handle different resolutions, which can
: get especially hairy when you're optimising things down to the render
: target tile size.

It's ironic that the exact way cutting split-screen could simplify his job(easing the ability of dynamic resolution) was the major thing H5 did that made 343i decide they had to cut split-screen. It's almost like they were willing to do major changes to the game to keep the one thing everyone had agreed they had done well before(graphics and resolution.) Weird how a company tries to get back into the good graces with their fanbase by doubing down on what they've done right and a part of that fanbase burns them for it.