The only thing official is what he's working on, which is yet again cartoony lol.

He is obssesed with cartoon style. He also already admitted. That's why PH and ST went with the WW art style.

"Everyone has been imitating this (snaps fingers) (laughs). I was told by many people that it was ‘beautiful.’"

Aonuma says a lot of things. People love unrealistic, and Aonuma knows it.

Here is the part that I think you are having a hard time with: Response does not equal sales.

People react well to seeing a realistic looking trailer.  Doesn't mean that they line up and buy the game.  You can call it spin if you want, but install base certainly is a factor when dealing with sales.

And more people love realistic, as he said in that video.

That's why OoT sold more than 7M in less than a third of the Wii installbase. Right? Oh, what a casualty, OoT is also considered realistic. Why don't you go to Nintendo and tell them how wrong they are?

Yes, but he talked about time when TP was developed not current time like you wrote.

Like I wrote, It's well known that Zelda TP with "realistic" graphics is somehow forced after bad reception of WW art style even WW later become one most beloved Zelda's and art style praised. Also we have two Zelda games after TP that don't have realistic graphic.

He didn't. Your disdain about this is adorable though.

God, that moment was orgasmic.

Let's keep this PG, please.

;)

"Being a realistic Legend of Zelda game...

                   That was the direction we took with Ocarina of Time as well.

                   We'd tested out various art styles, like with the cartoony style of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

                   But it seemed like users really responded to a more realistic art style, so we gave some serious thought to how to bring that sense of reality (...)"

And they will keep testing art styles. Yet, realistic has a better response even today, even at the E3 2011 demo.

"Being a realistic Legend of Zelda game...

                   That was the direction we took with Ocarina of Time as well.

                   We'd tested out various art styles, like with the cartoony style of The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker.

                   But it seemed like users really responded to a more realistic art style, so we gave some serious thought to how to bring that sense of reality (...)"

But if you want to keep living in denial, it's ok. At least they know the truth.