Anything That doesn't require actionable input fromt he locla CPU cna be done in the cloud. Even some stuff that would only require an update that isn't crucial every frame could be done too.
That means stuff like particle physics that cannot be interacted with (but then why not just used a canned animation?), dynamic weather (though this would just be a CPU time saver, it's not somehitng a mdoern CPu should should have issues with, but then again the consoles have tremendously weak CPU's. AI, is another possibility.
The main issue is that you can't design something that REQUIRES it. Unless its an online only games, or console gamers will have a fit. Even PC gamers hate the idea.
And then it becomes a quesiton of infrastructure. If you need X amount of cloud computing for y feature, what happens when 500,000 people need y? And what if 50,00 ar ein the US, and 50,000 are in Europe, and 50,00 are in South America?
Good luck with that.
Kinthalis
See, the funny thing is that doing something from the cloud still requires CPU power on the client's end. The client's CPU is actively looking for data that the server processes and storing it in the RAM. That by itself is more taxing than some simple AI code that most games will have next gen. 
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