Xbox One supports 8 controllers at once

Yeah, BUT...

I don't like even playing split screen. What are you going to do with 8 controllers?

I think PS3 has done 7 since the start - but what game would support that?  Would have to be some crazy party game - and everyone would have to bring controllers because no one is anyway keeping 8 on hand.

Paranormal 4 anyone? Even the damned like to play.

I'm not sure how relivent this is anymore, seems like split screen couch co-op isnt' a feature set many devs are building into games anymore.  Unless the box can support two separate monitors, i also can't see splitting a 1080p screen up into 8 pieces being much fun to play on.  It's cool it can be done, but doesn't seem practical.

My buddies got a big screen tv that can support that set up, but it doesn't do traditional spit screen, it actaully puts proper ratio mini TV screens up, so you look like your on your own set. It's a variation on watching multiple channels at once, works pretty good I guess. Still, just cause you can doesn't mean you should, or will...

I mean, I can jump off that bridge, but why?

If you build it, they will jump off it...

Eight players at once seems like overkill....I'm annoyed with having to split my screen with one other person.

I'm not letting those kids eat up my bandwidth when we have perfectly good sticks in the backyard that they can play with.

I don't think there's any way to do this, but maybe there would be some sort of output in the future that would allow 8 people to play the same game on the same system yet on different screens?

Wireless video cards?

but from an Xbox One?  It'd have to output the differing feeds.

Yeah, the Giant screen TV is able to access eight channels at once (maybe more I think), and that's simply not what the XBox is doing.And more than output the differing feeds, it'd have to keep up with all eight players actions simultaneously as well.

I really don't see a need for it.

I guess this means the XBOX is set up to wirelessly sync eight controllers at once, which seems obvious, but that in itself is kinda interesting. I just can't picture a game where you'd make use of it. Even simulated board games on the XBOX would be pushing it. At least you'd use one screen.

right, and for those board games you could just pass the controller.

WWE 2014 Throw the fat fuck over the rope mode, more controllers needed.

Yeah, I think this is more for games where multiple players are on the same screen and less for an 8 player split screen gaming session. 

Superbomberman8?

The PS3 supports 7 controllers but only sports games utilize this functionality.  For 8 players to play a game together on one screen, it's gotta be all 8 players on the same view of the world, not a TV broken out into 8 boxes.  SO i could see it workign well for sports games of course and also top down ARPGs, think Diablo 3 with 8 players.

Diablo3 with 8 players would be a mess. Good luck getting 8 people moving together in the same direction.

I keep pictuirng older, simpler games with 8 player capability, like superbomberman, where it's a fixed field player screen. There's a lot of older games that would absolutely rock with 8 players.

Diablo II allowed 8 player multiplayer.

Not on one computer, or computer screen, what's your point? What I meant, if it didn't sink in, was you aren't going to keep 8 people going in the same direction on ONE SCREEN unless the screen itself IS the boundary limit, which in Diablo 2 it wasn't...Which lends itself back to the older fixed screen/board games of older systems immediately. Like the Bomberman example above.

I'm sure that developers can come up with new stuff, but it requires a different direction of thought in the creative process.

I didn't play D2, I just assumed the screen WAS the boundry.