PlayStation's 2028 disc cutoff sends Mystic Ryan on a shopping spree

Episode 18 of his Game Collecting series is a pile of cheap PS5 discs, plus a Switch 2 game and a PS3 one that slipped in.

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I'm Buying Physical PS5 Games To Take The Pain Away. | Game Collecting Ep. 18

Discs are his therapy. In Mystic's world, PlayStation is ending discs in January 2028, and Ryan, the self-described talker who built his channel on covering the PlayStation ecosystem, has answered the only way a collector can: by buying more of them while they are cheap. "I'm Buying Physical PS5 Games To Take The Pain Away" is the eighteenth Game Collecting episode, and the description admits the habit has a cost, one that runs through the whole video. A Switch 2 game and a PS3 game sneaked in too, "because of course there is."

It is the more watched of his two uploads, past 130,000 views in six days. The comments spend a surprising amount of time on his outfit, with viewers comparing it to a Vice City extra and a certain kind of Florida uncle. Others ask whether a trophy hunting channel is on the way, and a few longtime viewers say goodbye in advance to buying discs at all.

The other upload is LTPS #746, his weekly news show, and it had plenty to chew on: Sony's QSSR upscaler for base PS5 consoles, rumors of a new Uncharted and a new Ape Escape, Naughty Dog's two Last of Us projects and a developer saying Sony is hearing the disc feedback. Three days old, it is gathering views at nearly the same daily pace as the collecting video.

Together they pushed the channel well above its usual daily views, though the subscriber count stood still at 826,000. Among the gaming news and commentary channels near his size, Luke Stephens had by far the biggest week, with Spawn Wave and Infinite Bits also running hot, while Mystic sat comfortably in the middle.

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The videos drawing views on Mystic right now

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The numbers

Here is how Mystic's channel and videos moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

Luke Stephens

4,985,769

Spawn Wave

1,401,208

Infinite Bits

1,105,037

oddheader

752,428

Zeltik

712,059

Mystic

372,816

Eurogamer

170,773

Kevin Kenson

66,819

LegacyKillaHD

48,959

subscribers

826,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

269,177,995

views per day

86,879

typical day: 48,106

first-day views of each video posted this week

I'm Buying Physical PS5 Games To Take T…

72,276

New Uncharted & Ape Escape Rumored, PS5…

61,095

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Zeltik

890,000

Infinite Bits

852,000

Mystic

826,000

Kevin Kenson

821,000

oddheader

812,000

Spawn Wave

772,000

Luke Stephens

757,000

Eurogamer

754,000

LegacyKillaHD

725,000

As of October 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.