The Miyamoto comment about him wishing games were not restricted to the television kind of creeps me out because I WANT to play my games on my TV (or a computer monitor, I guess). I don't want to play any other way.
I like the idea of a handheld/console combo. But with the popularity of tablets and smartphones I could also see the possibility of Nintendo ONLY releasing a handheld. For a lot of people their smartphones isn't for "on the go", it's for all the time. They don't switch to a desktop computer at home or have any desire to hook up their handheld device to bigger screens and better speakers. That market would be fine with a handheld only videogame industry and they could probably make enough money from that market that losing the business of someone like myself, who would not want things to be like that, wouldn't matter.
That's the sort of thing that creeps me out about Miyamoto talking about not being restricted to the television. And with the DS product line and the Wii U, Nintendo has moved in a direction where they require a proprietary screen. The next step could take the TV out of the picture entirely.
But then I fear a handheld-only future in electronics in general. I was raised in a world where big screens and big speakers were a status symbol and the generation below me seems to want to listen to everything on headphones and view everything on a small personal screen. I can see the markets for living room televisions, home stereo systems and desktop computers shrinking to a point where I would be in such a minority that virtually no one would bother to make such products anymore. When I'm an old man those sort of things will probably come across as old-fashioned as spinning wheels and horse-drawn carriages.
Ever notice that the market infatuation with handheld devices suggests a selfish frame of mind? You can't really use them with other people. If that doesn't sound like a potential flaw to you, then you're really admitting that you would rather enjoy movies, music, etc. by yourself and not share the experience with other people, including your own friends. Isn't that kind of sick when you think about it?