: Maybe I should have said old-Bungie but that just seems like sniping and it's
: not what I wanted to do.

I think it wasn't a company to company based issue and more of the fact that they saw everyone else getting by without it so they may have kept it a key piece longer than most but it was still an inevitablity that split-screen would someday go. However, as 343i is now well aware, they cut it too early and it will probably be a feature for longer than we actually want. Can't wait until a few games from now when we're all moaning about them lagging behind in graphics or whatever because they insist on keeping split-screen.