Shigeru Miyamoto talks on the future of Nintendo and the gaming industry, and hints in the future he wants games to escape the confines of TV altogether!

Miyamoto-san, designer/producer and general gaming-god of all Nintendo fans has chatted to Business Week Online, and defended the idea Nintendo are 'just for kids'. "We want our games to be for anyone from five to 95 years-old," he said. "We disagree with people who say, 'Nintendo is for kids, Sony is for adults.'"

He likened creating popular games to the pick-up-and-play Rubik's Cube, saying that until now, the arrival of 3D graphics with PlayStation and Nintendo 64 was the biggest recent innovation in videogames. But what for the future?

Miyamoto said he hoped whole families would be able to enjoy the Revolution, not just the average gamer. "Most people think videogames are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want entire families to play together. That was the concept behind Revolution."

Most interestingly, when asked what he thought games would be like in the future, he suggested removing one of the most vital elements of the current gaming setup - the television. "It's convenient to make games that are played on TVs. But I always wanted to have a custom-sized screen that wasn't the typical four-cornered cathode-ray-tube TV. I've always thought that games would eventually break free of the confines of a TV screen to fill an entire room. But I would rather not say anything more about that."

Makes you wonder what he's planning next...