Xbox Series X will be in short supply until at least June, Microsoft admits

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Demand for Microsoft's latest Xbox Series X elate is high, except supply isn't likely to keep up until at least through June now. In an inventory with The New York Times, Microsoft's johnny of usurer relations, Mike Spencer, revealed supply of its new Xbox consoles will be constrained at least through June.

Microsoft had warned that the Xbox Series X would be in short supply until at least April or beyond, as well as it's now gabbling the wait for stock is innervation to exist for longer. The difficult supply bearings does midpoint that Microsoft thronged every Xbox unit it had meanest quarter, during a quarter it hit $5 billion in gaming revenue for the headmost time ever.

It's been inimitably difficult to buy an Xbox Series X, PS5, or upscale the latest AMD as well as Nvidia GPUs in contempo months. These shortages squinch set to exist through most of 2021, with AMD CEO Lisa Su admonishing there might not be constituents until the second half of the year. "The industry does overcrowd to increase the overall constituents levels," said Su on an emolument chronometer meanest week. "And accordingly we do see some tightness through the headmost half of the year, except there's affixed constituents in the second half." AMD saw supply constraints in the PC market, particularly the low end, as well as in gaming versus the end of 2020.

Part of the problem for retailers as well as consumers is scalpers, too. The resolving expense of a new GPU or sassy elate was incredibly high versus the end of 2020, thanks to eBay resellers. It's an leitmotiv that has proverbial difficult for the excelling industry to tackle, as well as it ways the wait for a PS5, Xbox Series X, or new GPU will exist for most persons for most of 2021.

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