I'd like to splice in an addendum to an earlier thought. The "timeline" bit.

It's possible that Yoshida-san just means that because the "present day" of the game is Version 3.45, and we're seeing a scene from Version 4.00, in a manner of speaking, we're seeing the future. By comparing what we know is happening "now" to what it looks like is happening "then", we can start to narrow down our speculation of what we think might happen in the future. For people who've been playing since the very beginning, something about this future should stand out, so get to speculating.