So roughly around 2 and half to 3 times Skyrim, that's large for any game but for Zelda that is insanely big.

Wow, just realized what that last land mass was. If Twilight Princess one is correct, then this world will feel YUGE.

Comparing to games is fine and all, but it's always hard to get a feel when comparing games that are different. You know comparing or Skyrim or Xenoblade, ect.

But comparing to a game in its own series helps. Man this game is freaking massive then. It almost is like the entirety of TP could fit on the opening Plateau of the game. Thankfully it doesn't seem to be as walled in as TP either. So many big random walls/cliffs in TP that made teh world even smaller than the map shows. Also random loading screens between some areas were annoying.

Is this a joke or do you genuinely think that the map size is up to 3 times bigger than Skyrim on OP's image? As others have mentioned, Skyrim is roughly 60% of the size, not counting dungeons for either

From the looks of it BOTW is likely just under half the size of The Witcher 3.

Witcher 3 in what way?

Just its first area? (not prologue) or is that including the Skeliga isles as well? When including the isles, does it count land only, or include the ocean? What about the big expansion world?

Can't for this game, the size of the game looks very impressive, and just under 2 months to go and the Switch is coming too! March 3rd is gonna be so good!

That's staggeringly big 0_0

Nintendo really went all out for this one.

Size isn't all that matters of course -- the giant world in Just Cause felt barren and lifeless and the relatively small world in Shadow of Mordor was packed with exciting things to do and see -- but I trust Aonuma to deliver the goods.

you're right with there beeing 4 main things, but they aren't dungeons, I won't spoil though

Reddit has been lit the whole day on this topic so I would take this with a grain of salt since I saw comparissons all over the place, some said BotW is 8 times Skyrim, others said it's half of Ocarina, so just wait until the release date :v

BOTW has verticality due to flying around something Skyrim doesn't, as someone mentioned earliar using post notes and rotating the Skyrim map it fits into the BOTW twice.

Well you have to ignore the completely assanine ones.

I mean half of Ocarina? We have already seen in gaemplay videos them running around the game tat is already bigger than Ocarina. And that all takes place on just the plateua.