Yoshida is a very likeable guy, he never denigrates Sony's rivals and even praises them which is a very honourable thing to do.

I'm talking about the interaction with the game and the progressive system. In Zelda, you can literally interact with almost everything and what Sony has shown of horizon it don't see that type of interaction. Also in Zelda you can do whatever you want like you don;t even need to complete the story mode to beat a game. I've never seen a game with so much interaction with the world around it and games that you can beat without doing the story. It really is impressive tbh. 

Minecraft doesn't have a story unless you include Minecraft story mode which shouldn't really count. 

What? You mean the fact that you can pick up things and that you can climb? Climbing has been open world games for quite a while and they actually showed climbing first on Horizon during the conference.

And the fact that you could pick up things? It's just something that this Zelda game does. Most open world games have something unique to them, whether is Dying Light with parkour, or Horizon with it's unique take on robot dinosaurs in which you destroy the robot parts to get to it's weak spot or tethering them to the ground or with Shadow of the Colossus with riding a horse and shooting off it and climbing things with a stamina meter. There is nothing special about this Zelda that we haven't seen in other open world games.

EDIT: And I swear I've seen games where you can pick up objects.

There is a something new in this Zelda, but is not really in the new elements it brings to the saga but in HOW they are mixing them and translating them into the Zelda gameplay and the Nintendo style of making games, this looks to be one of the most dynamic, beautiful and fun open world experiences ever.

You'd never see a Nintendo praise a Sony game.

Always nice to see this kind of friendly talk

"General Manager of Nintendo UK David Yarnton spoke about the range of software that can be found on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 with the ability to encourage industry growth, even citing LittleBigPlanet from Media Molecule as a "fantastic example" of such software"

I have a better one: You'll never see Lawlight saying something not bad about Nintendo.

Don't mind jason, he just gets a little overexcited now and then.

Zelda went "modern" open world, adding features we've already seen in open world games. And as BraLOD said, while Zelda isn't necessarily doing things we haven't seen before, it is a huge leap for Zelda as a series.