?We?ve been wanting to do it as soon as we possibly could, but we just wanted to do it when enough people would be able to buy it and see it,? Mr. Lucas said on Friday from the Star Wars Celebration V convention in Orlando, Fla.
When the original ?Star Wars? movies were released on VHS in the early 1980s, Mr. Lucas said, sales were slow at first.
?We came out with ?Star Wars? right at the beginning of VHS,? he said, ?and we sold 300,000 copies.? Within a few years, he added, ?they were selling 1 million, 2 million, 10 million.?
?So we learned from that experience that if you?re too early in the marketplace, there?s just not enough demand for it,? he said.