True, if they can leave out some detail thay can certainly save memory. It would make the world feel a little barren though, but I see what you are saying.

But yeah, they almost certainly will have boundaries and the statemewnt was more a hyperbole than anything. 

My expectations for the new villain would be something cool like this:

But it's Aonuma..... So we'll probably just get more of this:

*sigh*

Nothing wrong with Ghirahim. Best villian in the series in a long time.

Everything is wrong with Girahim.

Yes, you are right of course about Four Swords Adventures, my mistake. Edited.

You could count OoX as a whole, it's fair to do so. In A Link Between Worlds (no super-huge spoiler, but probably best not to read because it's more fun to see in-game) he is referenced, and Yuga takes his imprisoned demonic power to transform himself.

I don't really care as long as Link remains a boy. If he's a girl...no. I went through this with MGS2 and I'm not going through it again lol.

People have been breaking down the teaser shot. It seems to have all the geographical features in proper place but there's a lack of architecture found in the series, leaing people to assume it takes place before things advanced to that point.

Ah, but FSA adding a new incarnation doesn't prove that he died in TP, because there could someday be a game that takes place in between!  XP  That's the problem with this series. Everything is inconsistent and determined by the seemingly random whim of the developers, and they can always leave endings open so that they can wedge stuff between/continue later.  But you could very easily be right, maybe all these times Link has stabbed him recently he's died.  If that's the case, then they really are going to need some fresh baddy blood, because they're wiping him out of every timeline!