A CFO Tim Stuart stated that the PS5 and Xbox series X would also face well-known problems like limited stocks during 2022Xbox.
The videogame market will be affected by the semiconductor crisis, which has limited the production capacity for Xbox and PlayStation 5, with the exception of Series S.
Stuart said that after consulting with investors, he believed the production chain would remain complex in 2022, then until fall, mainly because of recent Chinese lockdowns.
However, it is possible to find the items that are currently hard to find using Xbox Series Sin with significantly higher logistics costs.
This would explain why Microsoft’s next-gen console was always available, even though a PS5 or Xbox Series X were almost impossible to find.