From the newest Edge: map in X more than 5 times bigger than in Xenoblade on Wii

[JEMC]

Cheebee said:

JEMC said:
Holy cow. That's very impressive, but why?

X's world was big enough. Making it (at least) 5 times bigger is too much unless they fill it with quests, items and different enemies and landscapes, otherwise it will get repetitive very soon.

I hope they know what they are doing.

He stated why. Because you're going to run, drive and fly around in giant mechs. Hence the world would seem small(er) if they kept it the original Xenoblade's size. 

Yeah, I read that part, but still they could just make it twice as big and make it more detailed and with more things to do. Just because you can travel 5 times faster, doesn't mean that the world needs to be 5 times bigger.

It's the "make it bigger just because we can" way of thinking that annoys (in lack of a better word) me.