Past sales had nothing to do with their decision. It was all about future sales. As in: "Do we think that we will sell enough Blu-rays to make $150 million during the next 18 months?" Obviously the answer to that question is "No". Sorry, but you have to sell a lot of discs to gross $150 million, just imagine how many to net $150 million. In the current market, they figured that it would be better to alienate a {relatively} small subset of consumers and pocket $150 million than to keep producing blu-rays for now.
Why are you people still questioning this?
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