Zelda breath of the wild map bigger than Witcher 3 and Skyrim?

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Okie_Loki said:

onionberry said:

plus this game has a lot of vertical areas with various layers in one area, witcher 3 and skyrim have plane surfaces most of the time! can't wait to see the content.

Like half of Skyrim is subterranean (dungeons, caves, etc.). And it's populated relatively well. Plus, it's 5 years old so BotW should theoretically be able to pull it off considering it's already been done. 

Well yeah if you count all the interiors Skyrim's size goes up but that's normally not what's being debated since it's nearly impossible to measure with any accuracy.  The size of Skyrim's overworld is actually surprisingly small, only 12 square miles.