Pirat_Nation 🔴(@Pirat_Nation):Ken Kutaragi, the man behind the original PlayStation, says he understands why gamers are angry about Sony moving away from physical discs, but he believes keeping them around is no longer “economically reasonable.” Kutaragi says physical discs have become a metaphor for “owning” games, while comparing them to smartphones, where people are already comfortable accessing their content digitally. He also suggested Sony may be thinking of PlayStation less as a traditional console and more as a connected “content terminal.” Kutaragi believes advances in AI and cloud computing could eventually mean we “won’t need any console” at all.

2026.10.20 21:01

Ken Kutaragi, the man behind the original PlayStation, says he understands why gamers are angry about Sony moving away from physical discs, but he believes keeping them around is no longer “economically reasonable.” Kutaragi says physical discs have become a metaphor for “owning” games, while comparing them to smartphones, where people are already comfortable accessing their content digitally. He also suggested Sony may be thinking of PlayStation less as a traditional console and more as a connected “content terminal.” Kutaragi believes advances in AI and cloud computing could eventually mean we “won’t need any console” at all.