Local Multiplayer, is it needed?

I remember a few years back my dad calling me and my brothers for what he dubbed “Team Games” This was his word for 4 way split- screen multplayer, and to be honest, it was the closest we got to a proper conversation. For the next hour and a half; the air in our games room would be punctured with shouts of “SCREEN CHEATER”, the poor X-Box 360 kiling itself in the corner and my truimphant shouts as I won yet again. Back then I could not give a damn about online, it could never beat the entertainment and chaos of local multiplayer. So when yet another game is released without splt-screen, it understandably saddens me.