User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 10/19 -- ACR new info/@comment-24.218.235.154-20111101012300/@comment-3978457-20111101115302

That's irrelevant. Besides, Ubisoft has confirmed that we'll never get an AC game without an ancestor in it (in Desmond's story at least), so no game will only take place in modern day.