How do you think Zelda will fare in the coming years?

How do you think Zelda will change as time goes on? Do you think they will eventually make a game that, in most fans eyes, will surpass OOT? Or will they end up casualifying it and the series will never be touched by hardcoreness again? What do you think?

No Zelda will ever surpass OoT, only because that is the benchmark Nintendo has used for the past and future games. Unless they disregard it as a whole and shoot for something radically different, a la Wind Waker, it will never happen.