deltatheta
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By the way, the OP needs to be updated. I made an error when transcribing the first answer, which changes the meaning quite a bit.
I think your misquote here is misleading. They said:
Now with the hardware capabilities of the Wii U, what we did was we first started by saying well let's see what we can do if we take an entire world the size of the world from Twilight Princess and just try to make that as one area on the game.
They're talking about making TP's entire world one continuous area, not saying that it's one area of the map. He's saying the map is now one area instead of many. If anything he's saying the entire world of Zelda Wii U is comparable to the size of TP's world, or at least that's the size they started from.