Det virker en smule underligt at Shaun White inden for kort tid igen vil være med som frontfigur i Shaun White Skateboarding, når man læser hans seneste udtalelser om at optræde som hovedfigur i et spil. Udtalelserne er ganske vist i forbindelse med hans medvirken i det tudsegamle Playstation 2- spil Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder, men lyder alligevel som noget fra en person, der aldrig havde tænkt sig at medvirke i et spil igen.
Til Official Xbox Magazine har han således udtalt:
"That was terrible. It was the worst experience of my life, cause I was so excited, I'm like 13, they're like you're going to be in a video game... You start freaking out, you're getting excited. Then the game came out and I'm like 'I don't look anything like that!' It was ridiculous, it didn't really depict anything like my snowboarding or anything, it was just basically me in a game as a character and you realise that it's because I didn't have any input. No one asked me what I thought of it, nobody wanted to know that, they just took my name and put it on the character."
