Talking Point: Is Local Co-Op On Xbox Still Important To You In 2024?

These days, online multiplayer is a massive part of gaming. The ever-growing live service sector has fuelled that notion even more so in recent years, with lots of modern games featuring some sort of online gameplay - even if 'campaign' is the focus. As a result, local multiplayer is a bit of a dying thing in the industry, but does that bother you? Is it still an important feature for you in 2024?

Take this as an example. This week, we've seen a huge deep dive on Call of Duty Zombies for the upcoming Black Ops 6 game, and the mode's local co-op options are much more limited than they used to be. At one stage, four-player local co-op was a staple COD Zombies feature, but with Black Ops 6, it's only playable with two players locally - and the feature is completely absent altogether on Xbox One and PS4!