The single greatest dual analog controller without a DOUBT. You wanna know something? I bought mine more than a month ago. Since that time, I still haven't had to charge the damn thing once. As a matter of fact, it's still saying half charge as of today lol. I don't know how they got such amazing battery life into that thing but damn, Sony and MS need to take notes. 

I've had mine for over a year. I've charged it four times lol.

I hope it's like Metroid Prime: after awhile of wandering you get a message: "go here," but good luck figuring out how to do that. No more overtly scripted "help x people and they give you x MacGuffin to finish quest" like the other games.

That doesn't make sense within the narrative structure of Zelda. Why would Link be told to go to random point a for no reason. Samus has a reason and her quest is structured linearly. Link wouldn't and this quest would be structured openly.

I still think they should go back to the original Zelda where there is a triforce shard in each of the eight dungeons. That's all. Turn on the game and there are eight beacons. Go.

Seems that there'll be a map in the gamepad, interested to know more about this game

In SS you could use the sword for dowsing.

Sounds awesome. I hope they're really taking advantage of the hardware, not just with a Gamepad map.

Yeah, the "random points" would be the triforce shards or whatever else they need to be in the context of the story

"We can achieve this thanks to the hardware features of Wii U, but to truly get a deep understanding of the game world, we also need a real map that depicts the world as it is. The GamePad is very effective for displaying this, and thus also [for] providing players with a constant hint on where to head to."

I think this is the key part. To me, I don't read into that that the gamepad will just display a static map: that's hardly something that only the Wii U could do. What if you get a real time, over-head display of the overworld? If you don't know where to go, take a look at your gamepad: what's changed? Is something happening? Think about what happened when you left the Temple of Time in Ocarina, and Death Mountain was red. Think about how Navi talked about the cold winds coming from Zora's Domain. Instead of having your companion tell you the world has changed, your gamepad display will have the hint. Maybe smoke is coming from Death Mountain, or the flow of a river has changed, a lake has ran dry, villagers are on the move. A locked gate has opened. Maybe there's going to be cause and effect at play, to avoid too much linearity. Done one thing in one part of the map, something opens up somewhere else: these events wouldn't need to happen in a set order.

Aonuma says the game needs "a real map that displays the world as it is", and I think that's crucial. It gives you two perspectives on the game. The personal perspective of the hero on the television, and the wider perspective across the whole world on the gamepad. It'd fit into the idea of a feature you can use as much as, or as little as, you like, in order to gain access to secrets. Just want to explore? Don't look at the gamepad. Need a hand? Check out your "real map", displaying the world as it is.

This.

This is awesome. Now I hope this is what he meant !