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PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"

Ken Kutaragi, the founder of PlayStation and architect of the first three PlayStation consoles, has said that people being upset about Sony's discontinuation of game discs is probably a "mentality issue". He understands it, he noted, but that doesn't make it "economically reasonable" for Sony to keep printing them.

PlayStation founder Ken Kutaragi says discs became "metaphor for 'owning' games", and that upset at their discontinuation is a "mentality issue"
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Ken Kutaragi, the founder of PlayStation and architect of the first three PlayStation consoles, has said that people being upset about Sony's discontinuation of game discs is probably a "mentality issue". He understands it, he noted, but that doesn't make it "economically reasonable" for Sony to keep printing them.

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10/19/2026 13:07
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