I thought the tech demo looked more like an HD version of Twilight Princess with cinema quality models and textures, no?  I guess I haven't watch it in a while.

I'm fine with any style, though.  Wind Waker proved that gameplay trumps photo-realism.

you will probably win both of you're bets except the wiiu version of AC4 is better then the ps3 version but not the 360 version, as for zelda,i loved the tech demo, if its like wind waker or sky sword i will be heart broken.

I feel the same way.

But I feel history repeating itself, as it did with Wind Waker, and Nintendo's behaviour of late shows they are indeed stupid enough to make the Wii U Zelda a toon one.

I'm not taking that bet!

This mentality bothers the hell out of me. Why the hell would/should it look like another Zelda game? OOT and MM are part of a stylistic set. WW, PH, ST, MC, FS, and FSA are part of a stylistic set. TP and SS are part of a stylistic set. Those styles are over and done with. I don't understand why or how anyone would or could expect a new premier Zelda on a new generation Nintendo console would look anything like ANY prior Zelda game. Why can't people be excited to see a brand new art style unlike any prior Zelda games? Especially when Aonuma has stated on numerous occasions that he wants an unexpexted art style. Even ALBW's artstyle is different from ALttP.

I will seriously be annoyed if this new Wii U Zelda doesn't have a completely new art style. I don't care how dark or bright or chibi or realistic it looks, as long as it looks completely different from the others. I'm talkin Ocarina of Time to Wind Waker to Twilight Princess to A Link Between Worlds different. Not Ocarina of Time to Majora's Mask. Not Wind Waker to Phantom Hourglass. Not Twilight Princess to Skyward Sword. Those are basically just repaints.

I don't want Zelda for Wii U to look anything like the Tech demo. That is literally just Twilight Princess HD. I want to see the next original art style. One that people for the next ten years will say "Now THIS is what a Zelda game should look like." And then I want them to change that when the next next Zelda comes out.

It will look far worse than the tech demo. A real shame really because I would be very pleased to put money down for a console with a zelda like that on it.

Skyward does not look like TP.

"Will" is a very strong word here, and I don't know if you're talking about "worse" in art or "worse" in graphics.  One is subjective, and the other is just silly.

I'm thinking they will go for a darker Twilight Princess look.

...I hope that's a joke. Skyward Sword is what Twilight Princess would have looked like if it OD'ed on highlighters. Just as blurry. Just as goofy looking. Just brighter. Not a bad artstyle, but not a different one from TP. Just recolored with some different designs for the baddies. Same looking overworld. Same looking Link. Same looking games.

If Nintendo made a prequel to Wind Waker, but made the textures realistic and dark as opposed to cell shaded and bright, and changed the designs for the Moblins, but kept the overworld and character models basically the same, no one would call that a new art style. They'd call it what it is. A recolor of Wind Waker's artstyle.

And don't try to bring up that they redesigned Princess Zelda. They redesigned her in Minish Cap, too. That game's still in the Wind Waker style. Skyward Sword is still in the Twilight Princess style.