Thread:ADour/@comment-25192437-20150121220930/@comment-4651179-20150124191905

Hickman's entire New Avengers / Avengers run has led to this, and it's even been hinted at during his Fantastic Four run. This means that Secret Wars has been planned for over 4 years. So far, there has been no mention of Spider-Verse being linked to Secret Wars.

I don't think Marvel is trying to get rid of the Multiverse. Marvel respects the idea of alternate realities too much.

The Ultimate Universe and Marvel Universe will be mashed in Battleworld. In the map for Battleworld, there's a section labeled Manhattan, which will feature both the Manhattan from Earth-1610 and Earth-616.

So far, they didn't give any details on the new Marvel Universe (if there's a new Marvel Universe). They only said that it will spawn from Battleworld.