Board Thread:Ace Combat 7/@comment-70.190.133.211-20160212023848/@comment-4503347-20160219053400

Gundam Battle Operation, of which a number of Infinity's features are based on (the fuel, research tree, parts, and the lobby layout etc), is still active since June 2012, and it now has a sequel in the form of Gundam Battle Operation Next.

The Gundam franchise has countless number of games, and it's definitely not just because of Battle Operation. So even though it feels like that Infinity's existence is to fund future games or go bust (though it would have an influence of some sort IMHO), I think Infinity and 7 are still parallel in development.