Tuesday, November 17th 2020
XBOX Series X, Series S Shortages to Continue Well Into 2021
XBOX boss Phil Spencer recently warned interested parties on the new Microsoft Xbox family of devices that supply shortages may not be so short-lived as we would've hoped. More recently, XBOX chief Financial Officer Tim Stuart said he believes that demand will continue to outstrip supply well after the holiday season and at least until April 2021 - a point at which Microsoft might just be able to match demand with its supply.
"I think we'll continue to see supply shortages as we head into the post-holiday quarter, so Microsoft's Q3, calendar Q1," said Xbox chief financial officer Tim Stuart, Speaking at the Jefferies Interactive Entertainment Virtual Conference (transcribed by Seeking Alpha). "And then when we get to Q4, all of our supply chain continuing to go full speed heading into kind of the pre-summer months. And that's where I start to - I expect to see a little bit of the demand - the supply profile, meeting the demand profile." Microsoft's fiscal Q4 runs from April through June. Whether or not that's true, one thing we can now for sure: while supply isn't enough to satisfy demand, we'll see scalpers continuing to sell what consoles and graphics cards they managed to snag for outrageous prices. Don't cede: vote with your wallet and don't give them a pat on the back with your hard-earned money.
Source:
TechSpot
"I think we'll continue to see supply shortages as we head into the post-holiday quarter, so Microsoft's Q3, calendar Q1," said Xbox chief financial officer Tim Stuart, Speaking at the Jefferies Interactive Entertainment Virtual Conference (transcribed by Seeking Alpha). "And then when we get to Q4, all of our supply chain continuing to go full speed heading into kind of the pre-summer months. And that's where I start to - I expect to see a little bit of the demand - the supply profile, meeting the demand profile." Microsoft's fiscal Q4 runs from April through June. Whether or not that's true, one thing we can now for sure: while supply isn't enough to satisfy demand, we'll see scalpers continuing to sell what consoles and graphics cards they managed to snag for outrageous prices. Don't cede: vote with your wallet and don't give them a pat on the back with your hard-earned money.
34 Comments on XBOX Series X, Series S Shortages to Continue Well Into 2021
People got issues. Products are fine :oops:
Looks like MS tried to make sure they have units on launch in each country, it's just that people from other countries started to buy them out once they weren't available locally.
Ampere on Samsung hasn't gone as well as Nvidia like but at least it's taking some of the constraint away from TSMC
It boiled down to me just saying I have patience so that I do not need these at this time. Well, PS5 is more up my alley compared to Xbox. I am expecting same will happen with RX 6800 GPU's. As I have had money set aside to buy one, guess I can use that to buy xmas gifts instead and buy one when they are available in sometime next year.
Did hear a lot of others getting angry though. Cause well, they got nothing else to do and I dont blame them.
guess what? i still have so many games to play, books to read, movies to watch, music to listen to on backlog i can't hope to finish them all before i die... so i mean, eh. lol life is w.e deal with it and move on, its not like we are living in medieval times
Firstly blame covid.
Then have a limited number of consoles , graphics cards cpus....
So people wait ages ....