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

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I hope people was able to see in the trailer that the land mass is "empty" because that's the design of the game. The objective is to explore and be rewarded finding something cool, not that every inch will have something interesting.

There will be a lot of times during the game where you will walk for minutes and nothing will be in your way (outside of maybe some animals).

I'm ok with that, but can see from miles aways the ignorant comments about how the game is barren.