Xbox-chef Phil Spencer har tidligere talt om, at bringe Xbox-brandet til andre platforme, og gennem project XCloud er det nu muligt at streame Xbox-spil til Android-enheder.
Det næste skridt kan meget vel være Smart TV og i et interview med The Verge, går Spencer det klart, at det meget vel sker før snarere end siden.
Adspurgt om, hvad der forhindrer Microsoft i at lancere Xbox Appen på et smart-TV, svarer Spenccer:
"I think you're going to see that in the next 12 months. I don't think anything is going to stop us from doing that. I thought what you said about the TV was spot on. What we used to call a TV was a CRT that's just throwing an image on the back of a piece of glass that I'm looking at. Now, as you said, a TV is really more of a game console stuffed behind a screen that has an app platform and a Bluetooth stack and a streaming capability. Is it really a TV anymore or is it just the form and function of the devices that we used to have around our TV, consolidated into the one big screen that I'm looking at?"
Spencer gør det i samme interview dog også klart, at han ikke tror, dedikerede konsoller forsvinder lige foreløbigt.