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itachi15243 posted...

Because that would harm the continuity of the series even more?

In botw there are remains of castle town in hyrule that match up to Oot and kinda lay out for a definitive map of hyrule. So unless we only play after a major map changing event/catastrophe (ww), or a huge difference in time (if not just scrapping the timeline and/or other connections between games) we should have a similar general map layout.

TotK already renders the previous Zelda games non-canon or a separate continuity, so if they just do that with other Zelda games it's not really that out of the ordinary.

And yeah, future Zelda games aren't gonna be borrowing absolutely everything from BotW either. Future Zelda game with a new art style and new world entirely separate from BotW, just like the other Zelda games, but still retains some core design principles like its freedom of exploration, and there you go.