Link's generally been a teenager/young adult in the earlier games.

The fact is the three best selling Zelda games (OoT, TP, NES Zelda) feature an older, non-child Link.

I don't need a hyperviolent Zelda game, but what's wrong with a Nintendo franchise that is a little darker and cinematic? I don't want a "cutesy" Zelda, I just don't have the patience to stay in that world for 60+ hours. If you're asking me to play a game that long then I need some meat for my grown-up self to chew on.

Nintendo has so many kid/cartoon-centric franchises already anyway ... Zelda doesn't need to go in that direction. Sometimes its smarter to just give people what they want.

To be honest I wouldn't prefer to baby as say Baby Mario vs. Real Mario. Or Baby Samus vs. Real Samus. I didn't like Baby Kong in DKC3 that much either, prefer using DK. I just don't see the appeal.

This please.

I'm not sure Nintendo could handle all the rage if that happens. Enough of those artstyles, redefine Ocarina of Time/Majora's Mask/Twilight Princess.

IDFK if the art style is all stick figures as long as it has great music I'm all good.

Link was 10-12 in LoZ, and I liked that when I was 10-12. In AoL, the same Link was 18, and I liked that he was growing up with me. OoT allowed for both young and grown up. There are now decades of fans who grew up with Zelda and we'd like him to be at least past puberty. New child fans just got WWHD - us old fans (and that's most fans) should get a grown up.

I'm fine with Journey-like visuals, however. That would be a dream.

You know I gotta admit, that would redefine the genre, lol.

You know Philips had some games that got pretty close to this art style, this could  very well be the collaboration project they need to squash the beef.

Zelda NES had a young Link. OoT featured a young Link in an older body. Zelda has aways been a kid franchise. Every single game but one is rated E. You want an "adult" franchise? Look somewhere else, because that's not Zelda.

For everything else, read my signature. Then grow up.

He's fine either way but in the 2-d versions he always kinda looks more like young Link.

Well with wanting the next Zelda to "appeal to wider audiences" (read: we want a piece of the call of duty pie in today's lingo) get ready for a 35 year old steroid injecting muscular goatee wearing scar faced Link with an assault rifle built into his sword.

Aonuma already confirmed that that isn't happening.

There's a monumental difference between appealing to a wide audience, and appealing to a widER audience. He said wide. He never implied that Zelda doesn't appeal to a wide audience.