BluRay in PS3 was Win/Win for Sony

[Final-Fan]

Because press releases never stretch the truth, and always are careful to give a complete and accurate breakdown of the causes of events, right?

Listen, if you're resorting to the lack of HISTORICAL DETAIL in a press release, just give up. And even granting that Toshiba's press releases are infallible and leave nothing out, EVEN THEN your argument holds no water.

"This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market."

That means that the final straw, the one that broke the camel's back, happened recently. I.e. the Netflix thing or Wal-mart or whatever. Does that mean that the constant grinding pressure of millions upon millions of PS3 Blu-ray players was unimportant? No. That's like saying that the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the SOLE CAUSE of the Japanese surrender in WWII, and the fact that all their major cities were flaming rubble and the fact that their navy was smashed and the fact that there were a million Marines sitting on Okinawa had nothing to do with it.

And that's not even mentioning the tiny possibility that the "recent major changes in the market" were thanks to earlier shifts in the market CAUSED [edit: in part] BY THE PS3.

If this press release is all you have to base your argument on, you have nothing to base your argument on.