Pilvipelaaminen on tulevaisuutta, mutta verkkopalvelut ja suoratoisto eivät tule syrjäyttämään perinteisiä pelikonsoleita vielä pitkään aikaan. Tätä mieltä on Xbox-pomo Phil Spencer.
Insomniac Gamesin perustajan Ted Pricen AIAS Game Makers Notebook -podcastin haastattelema Phil Spencer esitti useitakin näkemyksiä koskien pilvipalveluita. Hänen mukaansa ne toimivat perinteisen pelaamisen vaihtoehtoina, eivät korvaajina. Spencerin mukaan perinteiset pelikonsolit tulevat olemaan se paras tapa pelata pelejä vielä ainakin 10 vuoden ajan.
"When I think about video and music, those streaming services have liberated that content to all the media devices around me. I now have way more devices than ever to watch TV. It hasn't lessened the number of devices — it actually increased it. I have Spotify in my ear. I have Spotify in my pocket. I have the ability to go connect to my music services across many devices."
"I think games are going to be similar, what we're going to find is that as games are able to run in multiple contexts, you're going to see a lot of different devices grow up to support different use scenarios."
"I think I'm going to have a game console plugged into my television for the next decade-plus. It's going to be the best way to play on my television — to download locally and play. But sometimes I'm not in front of my television. Sometimes I'm not in front of a device that has the native ability to play. So that's our bet on cloud."