I guess it all depends on what type of games also :P, to be honest I've never played a strait forward racing game with friends :x, just not quite my thing, however, my friends and I have been blowing the shit out of each other in Warhawks via 4 player split-screen :P then having 12 other online players join us xD and the best part is that you can hop in or drop out at the press of a button :P
It all depends on the developer, not the console maker. Haze will be featuring 4 player split-screen co-op and multi, Little Big planet will be 4 player, I believe it's cool that Nintendo games in general sell better when they're of the "party oriented" type, I would definitely say Nintendo is the play-with-your-friends console. The ONLY game that saw life on my roomates game-cube was SSMB :P However if your looking for a racing game with split screen I cant help you :x
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