![]() ![]() On the Kickstarter page, the “early bird” adoption for the base model, the NexusTwo, is $180. But now that I know the MSRP, I think it’s going to be Skreens’ biggest obstacle to adoption by far. Though the tech is cool, I figured the box would be somewhere between $50-100, which in my mind seemed like a logical price for the service it provides. ![]() Other than this, the main hurdle is the cost of Skreens itself. It would be strictly BYOC (bring your own console). To have a more permanent way to play split-screen at the drop of a hat, you would just have to straight-up own two consoles, one being yours, and one where guests can sign-in with their own accounts. As someone with a Wii U, Xbox One and PS4, and also with an undying love of split-screen, I honestly can’t imagine buying an entirely new console just to make that work. To play with a friend, you have to have them physically haul their console over to your house and hook it up to Skreens. Namely, cost and convenience.Īs mentioned, this is not just using sorcery to insert split-screen into a game that wasn’t designed for it. I’m not surprised it’s demolished its funding goal this quickly (it was going to happen with or without Kickstarter, I’m told, but it exists to take feature requests/pay for the initial order of units).īut before I go too off the rails with high praise here, I have to come back to reality where there are some very significant hurdles Skreens has to overcome. An HDMI source splitter might not seem like “magical” tech, but I haven’t seen anything else on the market that appears to fill that void and work this well. If this isn’t the answer to everything I’ve been talking about with the abandonment of split-screen, I don’t know what is. That means Halo 5 can get splits-screen back, Destiny fireteams can roll together in the same room on one TV, and so on. Literally all these new games that have banished split-screen from their feature list can now be played via couch co-op. The implications for this are kind of crazy. Obviously, the bigger the TV, the better. Skreens can also be used for literal picture-in-picture functionality, like watching cable or Apple TV alongside a game being played. And it’s not just for split-screen multiplayer. The device does this with no lag, supposedly, thanks to some patent-pending tech. Rather, this is essentially a hyper-advanced form of picture-in-picture, that TV feature of old which allows you to display multiple inputs simultaneously, but here you can re-arrange the layout of the splitscreen yourself. So yeah, obviously the thing wasn’t going to alter the fundamental DNA of these games to allow for split-screen in titles that weren’t built for it. ![]()
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