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The debate about Sony’s plan to stop making physical PS5 discs has raged since this summer.

Ken Kutaragi says the console era faces a “very real danger,” believing that AI platforms could evolve beyond the need for dedicated hardware. His recent comments come from a new interview, but he stresses they are only his views and don’t reflect Sony’s overall position. It’s been almost 20 years since Kutaragi retired from PlayStation.…

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.

Ken Kutaragi practically willed the PlayStation into existence against the wishes and judgment of many others at Sony. His tenacity paid off. Decades after the PS1 launched, the PlayStation brand is dominant in the world of high-end console gaming. But the discs that propelled the platform to success are not long for this world, and…