The PS5 and Xbox Series X are almost impossible to find right now and it looks like that won’t change anytime soon. The first month of 2021 is about to end and while GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart and many more have launched new stocks this month, it wasn’t nearly enough to satiate demand, and that’s partly because each supply has been limited with Sony and Microsoft production lines fighting for parts, and because the effect the pandemic had on production lines last year is still persistent. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, that won’t change in 2021.
Speaking to investors during a recent earnings call, Su revealed that not only consumer demand is high, but also production, and companies compete for the same parts. As a result, AMD expects these issues to continue, at least, until the second half of the year.
Its not disclosing much more consequences, but this confirms that the PS5 and Xbox Series X will continue to be difficult to find until at least June, unless demand declines, which seems unlikely at this time. And right now, there’s no guarantee that supply will outpace demand during the second half of the year, but AMD looks like things could change by then.
At the moment, neither Sony nor Microsoft have said much about the stock situation, especially the former. The latter, Microsoft, confirmed at least recently that it does not expect any change on this front for this financial quarter.
Of course, resellers add to the problem, they take stock before consumers can do so using bots asking for thousands of consoles in minutes. Right now, the reseller market is very healthy and it’s pretty easy to find PS5 and Xbox Series X in there, but of course these consoles have inflated prices.
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