It's a pity the timelines don't quite merge, because a crossover between SAO and Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is just begging to be made.
"Togusa. Why does Kayaba sound like you?"
"...Major, I honestly have no idea."
"Major, there's no way Togusa coulda pulled any of this off. He isn't a Wizard-class hacker like you, afterall."
"Thanks a lot, Ishikawa."
That said, the verses are just completely explicitly different - cyberbrains were already in wide usage in the early 2020s in GitS, and the world of SAO is very close to ours, so it's a fun idea, but one that can't really progress further.
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