Gamereactor uutisoi taannoin, kuinka Ubisoftin johtaja Yves Guillemot uskoo seuraavan konsolipolven olevan se viimeinen, ja sen jälkeen pelaaminen tapahtuu lähinnä suoratoiston eli striimaamisen voimin.
Xbox-pomo Phil Spencer on kuitenkin eri mieltä, ja kantansa hän ilmaisi Eurogamerille. Spencerin mukaan pelaaminen eri muodoissaan monipuolistuu, mutta perinteinen konsolipelaaminen isolla televisiolla säilyttää silti vielä paikkansa.
"I could see why he would say that.
I'm a little more bullish on people having local hardware to run games for many, many years. What we will find is more people playing the quality of games we're used to seeing on a console on other devices. But that doesn't mean this experience of playing on my television with a great sound system and great frame-rate and great resolution is going to go away that quickly. What you'll see is a diversifying of the places where people can play great content."
"For a lot of us today, there's a certain kind of game we expect on a phone and another kind of game we expect on our console. It's not always true they're separate. You can see PUBG and Fortnite now on the phones doing much better, but a lot of the games there are very casual. I know content developers want to reach as many people as they can with their content. So, I do think as we move forward, more people will be playing more kinds of content on other devices. But television will be one of those."