Its too expensive and CLEARLY the 360 undercut any benefit available from the larger capacity. To me its as debilitating as the Wii's hardware has been to HD game conversion. Theres just not enough reason, especially now, to push for more game depth with 360 in front.
The true answer he should have given was, we wanted to revitalise the home movie market through the BR player and protect ourselves from the online download threat, that's the clear and obvious answer.
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
