User blog comment:Damac1214/Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Reveal Trailer has Dropped/@comment-1646923-20140502070153/@comment-1854594-20140502081041

It would make sense. There's only so far down the timeline you can get where "Modern Warfare" applies as a name, and this gets the attention alot better then Modern Warfare 4. It could be like what Killzone: Shadow Fall is to the original three Killzones, greatly distanced but still connected.