That 2011 Zelda E3 demo kind of stings in hindsight because it 1. really made the Wii U look much more powerful than it actually was, and 2. before that, the actual Zelda games always looked much better than the early Zelda tech demos which showed off the new systems. Ocarina of Time looked so much better than the tech demos for Zelda 64, and Twilight Princess looked so much better than the 2000 Spaceworld Zelda. Breath of the Wild looked great and going open world meant the system's power was going in different places than the demo, which was in a single room, but this was the first time a Nintendo graphics demo oversold the power of the system instead of underselling it, and we never really saw an actual game that reached that level of fidelity on the system.







