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".
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".
The short version
- He understands it, he noted, but that doesn't make it "economically reasonable" for Sony to keep printing them.
- Kutaragi was speaking to Video Games Chronicle at the Game Republic New Horizons event , where he said: "I understand that physical discs have become a metaphor for 'owning' games.
- I really understand that mentality...
What happened
But nobody thinks [physical media] is necessary for a networked device like a smartphone, for example, because people feel that they will keep their content. "I really understand [why some people are upset]," he added, "but I don't think it's economically reasonable.
Why it matters
Maybe it's a mentality issue." Kutaragi retired from PlayStation in June 2007 , shortly after the PlayStation 3's European release, so he's been out of the company for a while.
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