The PS5 and Xbox Series X are hard to find right now, and it sounds like this won’t change anytime soon. The first month of 2021 is almost over, and while GameStop, Amazon, Best Buy, Target, Walmart and more all released new stock this month, it wasn’t nearly enough to meet the demand, and that’s in part because any supply very limited with both Sony’s and Microsoft’s production lines struggling for parts, and as the impact of last year’s pandemic on production lines still persists. According to AMD CEO Lisa Su, this will not change in 2021.
Speaking to investors on a recent earnings call, Su revealed that not only is demand high on the consumer side, but also on the manufacturing side, with companies vying for the same parts. As a result, AMD expects these problems to persist until at least the second half of the year.
Su doesn’t reveal many other consequences, but this confirms that the PS5 and Xbox Series X will be hard to find at least until June unless demand falls, which seems unlikely at this point. And at this point, there’s no guarantee that supply will be a bit faster than demand in the second half of the year, but AMD seems hopeful that things could change by then.
At this point, neither Sony nor Microsoft have said much about the stock situation, especially the former. The latter, Microsoft, has at least recently confirmed that it does not expect any change on this front for this financial quarter.
Of course, the problem is compounded by resellers, who gobble up inventory before consumers can do it through bots that order thousands of consoles in minutes. At the moment the reseller market is very healthy and it is quite easy to find a PS5 and Xbox Series X there, but these consoles naturally come with high prices.
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