Now that Zelda has gone Open World, will it ever go back?

[PAOerfulone]

Thing is, Twilight Princess is the only game in the series to sell the numbers that it did. Everything else is usually somewhere between 3-5 million. The only games to exceed that are Phantom Hourglass (barely), Zelda 1, Ocarina of Time, and Twilight Princess. So, given the patterns of I don't think they were expecting those huge numbers from Skyward Sword, which was released when the Wii was all but dead and they were moving on to the Wii U.