Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29045088-20160714104605/@comment-36483128-20180806055303

Well, Kawahara kinda confirmed that SAO and AW are possibly set in the same timeline with the game Accel World Vs. Sword Art Online. Although it is set in the game timeline of SAO, which differs drastically from the main series, it still fits somewhat with this theory by having the characters meet and say that they may either be in the same timeline with characters from AW stating that games like Sword Art Online and Alfheim Online are games from their past. Also SPOILERS the reason why their timelines have merged is also by a main character from Sword Art Online, Yui from a very far future who came back in time to kill her younger self to save herself from a future without Kirito and Asuna. She ended up merging the two timelines of our group in the 2020's (Kirito and friends-SAO), and our other group from the 2040's (Haru and friends-AW). But, it's also possible that their timelines have some similarities with the games they have and could also differ with what happened within those events. But this is just from what information I've gathered and worked off of, so if anyone can further add to this, then by all means please do.