joefavs said:
Couldn't you read the ROTJ celebration footage as flash forwards? I find it hard to believe that news could travel fast enough for the Bespin/Coruscant/Naboo/Tatooine stuff to be literally be happening concurrently with the festivities on Endor, so what's to say that those scenes don't happen weeks or months later (as opposed to the handful of days most people seem to assume)? If we're flashing forward either way there's no reason a short increment of time should be more valid than a longer one. And Bespin is the only planet shown that has anything to do with this Uprising game. I think that as long as there isn't a definite timestamp on that shot, fitting the new game into the timeline isnt a huge stretch.
I also find it hard to believe that a small backwards planet such as Tatooine would bother to coordinate their freedom celebration on the exact same day as Naboo or Corsuscant. However I don't think anyone here is suggesting that the celebration footage was meant to happen on the same day as the second Death Star blew up, but I doubt that it would be as much as months after the fact. Of course it hard to estimate just how long news travels in the SW universe. But for the sake of nitpicking, I can't help feel that Coruscant would have some way of getting the news pretty quickly being that it is the Imperial Center. However the trailer suggests that the game might be about stopping the uprising that we saw in ROTJ (SE).
The uprising we're referring to btw is mostly done through suggestion, as well as in the EU. If you look at the SE footage of the Coruscant celebration you can see a stormtrooper being attacked by the crowd and a statue of the emperor being tore down.
Best picture I could find:
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120114004058/starwars/images/8/84/Corsectrooper.jpg