Breath Of The Wild's Director Is Returning For The Sequel - Game Informer
Yeah, BOTW 2 definitely won't take too long. They're reusing the same map from BOTW (remixed of course, but it won't be an entirely new map).
I wonder what other major titles Nintendo has planned for 2020. It definitely won't just be Animal Crossing and Death of the Wild, because one was delayed from this year and one could be delayed into 2020 (it's Zelda, multiple titles in the series have been delayed. There's gotta be a backup plan). Hopefully a new 3D Mario, a Mario Sports title, Bayonetta 3, and Pikmin 4. Those would round out the year pretty nicely.
Oh yeah, and this quote: "“A lot of people have been asking that, and so I want to ask you, why do people think that?” Aonuma said when I asked him this morning during an E3 interview on the second floor of Nintendo’s booth at the Los Angeles Convention Center. He spoke through an English-Japanese translator.
“Well it seems like it’d make sense, because at the end of Breath of the Wild she was freed, so now she can be a protagonist,” I said. “Also, I think people have wanted it for a long time.”
“I see,” said Aonuma. Then he laughed. “But I can’t tell you.”"