Wii has it's share of offenders as well.  Though granted i don't believe any involve sports games.

I haven't played any Wii game that supports multiplayer, but doesn't have split-screen. There's not really any other way to do it on the Wii since there are only a handful of games that feature online play.

Split screen is also one of the first things I look for, there were times when people met at my house for a few drinks before heading out somewhere and we never got any further than GC Mario Kart.

It does seem a little off that with the whole casual gaming thing that Nintendo are bringing to the table and larger, clearer tv's with bigger screens that other devs wouldn't see the pull in split screen action.

Man Mario Kart on SNES had the worst splitscreen.... Even when playing by yourself you'd only get half a screen and the friggin map would take the rest!!!!

Battallion Wars 2 is the only one that comes to mind.  But that's just one game--Wii is absolutely the system to go to for local MP.  Both the 360 and PS3 have some great single console multiplayer games (Halo, Gears, Warhawk, CoD 4, probably some more I'm not thinking of) but for the most part they cannot compare with the hilarious antics that ensue when having a good game of Wii Sports, Mario Party, Mario Strikers, Warioware, soon to be Mario Kart, and ESPECIALLY Brawl

I'm with you on that one. Sure I had fun back in the day with all those old multiplayer games that had splitscreen, but we always wished we could have our own screen. Especially for those beat-em up games where you would have to wait for your partner before going further across the screen. Goldeneye and Perfect Dark would've been even more fun when going up against those cheesy screen watchers.

I don't mind that most games are going away from split-screen gaming. Especially racing games! I want my whole screen to see the road. Then again I guess because all of my friends have Xbox Live it makes things easier. Plus all the games anyone ever wants to play in split-screen have split-screen. Like Halo 3, NFS Carbon, Gears of War, etc... I would've hated Crackdown if it was split-screen instead. Having the freedom to run around until you and your partner lose each other is part of the beauty of the game. 

Agreed. You have to give Nintendo credit for the best party games. Only problem is that they overload on those, and PS3/360 don't get nearly enough.

 I bought the wii pretty much for social gaming. I had a 360 for a year (still do and still play it) but I could not find very many good split screen games to play with my friends. I thought it was because they wanted everyone to have xbox live (which I do, and I think is great) but it sounds like the ps3 has the same problem. the wii on the other hand almost everygame i own has split screen, so when friends come over we play that. Online multiplayer is great, but only one my friends has a 360 so split screen is the way to go. 

Oh my god!! I'm so excited others feel this way. Sure, online is fun.. But, there is nothing like having all your friends huddled around playing on one screen and having an absolute blast when you see your friends TRUE and genuine reaction. I want and LOVE split screen. It's the multiplayer I prefer.

Wii is for casual(/friend) oriented system and Ps360 are for hardcore(/friendless) oriented system. (Thats what almost all fb's keep telling other people)

/sarcasm