10 Ways The Gaming Industry Can Improve In The 2020s

1. Local Multiplayer Has To Make A Comeback

These may seem like ramblings of a nostalgic old man, but split-screen multiplayer was bloody great, wasn’t it? Timesplitters, 007 Nightfire, Smash Bros., all night sessions beating Halo - those were the goddamn days. No headsets, no strangers making obscene comments about your mum and no laggy internet connections. It was just you, your pals and an unholy amount of time in front of a TV.

2018’s A Way Out proves that there's still a hunger for this near-dead gaming model. Split-screen multiplayer is compulsory. Whilst it can be played online with a stranger, it was clearly designed for old-school couch co-op.

Gaming has become a much less social affair in the past ten years or so, with even the multiplayer fans usually logging in alone. Online multiplayer is undoubtedly a fantastic feature to modern gaming, but it’s completely pushed aside what was a huge aspect to gamers who grew up playing games in a room, with other people (a crazy concept, I know.)

So, where does all this leave us going forward into 2020? What does the next decade and next generation hold for gaming? Hopefully a similar ten year period to that between 1995 and 2005, in all honesty.