4Gamer: Why do you include Ace Combat 3 in canon history?
ACE7 producer Manabu Shimomoto: [...] Some veteran dev members joined this team bc they admired ACE3. ACE7 takes place in 2019 & ACE3 in 2040; not too far away. When I discussed with team, we decide to put ACE3 into canon. pic.twitter.com/ysR5RbAOOP

— 黒凧 BlackKite (@bk2128) August 25, 2018