Quote Originally Posted by kaynide View Post
I think it just boils down to YoshiP playing it safe and not wanting to commit to any specific thing and be forced to take it back later.
Quote Originally Posted by Zero-ELEC View Post
I mean, at the end of the day, nothing has really changed.
This isn't the minor statement you guys seem to think it is.

There was no need to confirm that there was a split timeline in play. But the split seemed to be an extraordinary event in an otherwise single timeline where time loops can form.

If Yoshida is not just guessing and not being mistranslated here, he's introducing the existence of countless additional timelines, many of them where we failed one way or another.

It devalues our victories if it always equally creates a world where we lose.

I just don't know if he even means it, since he goes on to only talk about the state of things in the one specific alternate timeline implied to be a unique split, and not the many he's just spun into existence by declaring there are many other splits.