This is what was promised and this is what all Zelda fans should want and get. No exceptions.

I would be all over a huge fully explorable world that wraps around itself. With lakes and a sea with underwater cities, caverns and caves in mountains, valleys and canyons, monstrous volcanoes and intimidating icebergs, lush forests, sahara-like desert and islands in the sky.

Oh, if only...

Precisely.

If Nintendo do not give us the dark, gorgeous 3D Zelda this demo promised, they will damage their cred and lose thousands of potential customers who would have swooped in for such a game but otherwise wouldn't touch Wii U.

A toon Zelda U would be about the stupidest move Nintendo could possibly make.

If only Aonuma wasn't such a colossal cunt forcing all of his "genius" on us like so much bird shit. The Zelda demo we got in 2012 is nothing but a tease. Zelda U will be a sequel to Skyward Sword. A total fucking waste.

You are acting like they never made a good 3d Zelda, TP wa kinda empty cause midway in development they had to take another route from a wind waker sequel to a darker twilight princess.....and the concentration on wii motion plus didn't do SS any favor....Wind Waker HD and ALBW are both good indications of what we can expect for Zelda U

Nintendo should just release Link Between Worlds with improved graphics on Wii U's eShop. That would make everyone happy. Give us the graphically intense third persona Zelda, too.

Everything, interviews with Aonuma, statements from Nintendo, A Link Between Worlds, points to Zelda U changing up even more of the formula the series has gotten used to. I believe Aonuma can even be qouted saying they want to try to let the player's exploration drive the story progression. He also acknowledges the linear structure of Skyward Sword and wants the next Zelda to take a much more open approach.

Because you didn't enjoy the previous Zelda game Aonuma is a cunt and the next Zelda will be a total fucking waste? Not even the extremely high praise of A Link Between Worlds gave him some redemption? No one is forcing anything on you, perhaps you didn't enjoy a particular entry in the series but the next one might be catered more to your needs. 

[EDIT: That's not even mentioning all the refinements they've made in The Wind Waker HD. Providing further proof that the quality of Zelda games is only improving.]

Much as I like top down zelda games and I'm enjoying lbw right now, I think Nintendo should stick with 3d for console Zelda's. Ocarina and majoras mask were awesome and I still live in hope after all these years of there one day being a worthy successor to those games.

I'd rather have a non-linear 3D Zelda with a good number of side-quests and a story with subtlety. Pretty much everything Majora's Mask did, but with a different world and different story. Of course, I wouldn't mind a 2D Zelda, just that first sentence is my ideal. 3DS is more than enough for the top-down series.

No... it shouldn't.

I want something like Wind Waker or OoT. If Zelda U is top down, it should be out in six months, and it won't be out til 2015. On account of the enormous production values that I expect from a home console Zelda title.