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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.

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... 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. So it's a mentality.

"I really understand [why some people are upset]," he added, "but I don't think it's economically reasonable. Maybe it's a mentality issue."

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