User blog comment:Lintyjellidonut/bioshock infinite reveiled!!!!! it looks awsome!!/@comment-1507483-20100813182319

To me, the name BioShock just means that all the games in the franchise take place in the same fictional universe. I haven't read the statement myself but Levine COULD mean that Columbia and Rapture never interact with each other and that Booker DeWitt won't visit Rapture even though they are in the same series. A sort of clarification to the ones who didn't notice the apparent time difference. This doesn't necessarily translate to "Columbia and Rapture won't affect each other what-so-ever, ever". I've come to think of two scenarios where the cities could come to "cross paths". 1. Due to the still mysterious ADAM-slug who still got no real explanation, it's possible they're created in/on Columbia and dropped in the Atlantic ocean (or more plausible perhaps, placed there for rapturians to find). 2. Columbia over-lives Rapture and when the surface world finds out about Rapture, Columbia secretly loots the ruins first and adapt splicing to their own technology, thus setting the stage for Bioshock 4/5/6