No splitscreen? Are you serious 343?

Love playing split screen with my son. Just canceled my preorder. Battlefront has split screen, so looking forward to playing that instead.

another bad company *** the gaming industry

NO SPLITSCREEN !!?!?

Canceled my pre-order today!

One of the best games ever my wife and I played will end with Halo 5.

Here is the truth of the matter.

Halo: CE was a huge hit and it had no online MP, only local and LAN. It set a precedent for people getting together and having LAN parties, with multiple consoles, TVs and players. I went to a few myself.

The thing is, time and technology advance. XBL grew over time. As it grew, both gamers and developers started to realize something. It's far more convenient to simply jump into online MP matchmaking for a few quick games, or even for a long gaming session,
than it is to get a group together.

LAN parties began to fall by the wayside when Halo 2 released and that's no surprise. The plain, simple truth is that there just aren't as many people who play split-screen anymore.

Life today is hectic... people have crazy schedules, keep odd hours to accommodate them... convenience is paramount and it doesn't get more convenient than having the ability to just jump onto XBL and hit MP match making on one's own schedule, without having
to coordinate with someone else.

It takes time and resources to create a split screen mode for games and like it or do not... devs won't [read as shouldn't be expected to] put that time and effort into something that fewer and fewer people are using. Simple as that. 343i and Halo aren't
the only ones. The Gears of War series has gradually faded out split screen as well as some others I can't recall.

People can get mad and rage on the internet all they want, threaten not to buy, predict a game or its dev/publishers' downfall... etc. Someone already said 'don't buy it, sales will wane and they'll get the picture'... because that's 'how the market should
work'. I agree, if you don't like it, don't buy. But I think some people may need to realize, that's how the market IS working. Split screen isn't as prominent as it once was and people are still buying.

I wonder how many of you aren't going to buy the game because of no "Split-Screen"? Y'all are getting it regardless. Don't know why you're complaining.