Honestly, I think a lot of people complaining about the shortage of consoles haven’t actually tried consistently at getting them in the past few months. Believe it or not, it HAS gotten better. Show The process takes weeks and you have to be diligent (signing up for twitter notifications, checking your local game stores regularly, etc). If you do this, there is a pretty good chance you’ll be able to land yourself a next gen console (even if it’s just a Series S) within a few weeks of trying. Of course, not everyone has the time or patience to do this, and I don’t blame them. But it’s ridiculous to say that scalpers are taking all the stock and that it’s absolutely impossible to buy a PS5 right now. It’s not, it’s just a pain in the ass and if you only look for one when you happen to be in the right store that day, then ya, I doubt you’ll get your hands on one anytime soon. For context, I’m in Ontario, Canada Less than a year ago, the Intel CEO expected the chip shortage to drag into 2023.Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is anticipating that the chip shortage, which has been negatively impacting many industries including the games industry, will remain an issue well into 2024. In a recent interview with CNBC, Gelsinger told the outlet that the chip shortage might drag on for two years due to the strain on key manufacturing tools. "[W]e believe the overall semiconductor shortage will now drift into 2024," Gelsinger told CNBC. Gelsinger previously predicted several times that he expected the chip shortage to drag into 2023, with the first mention of it coming last July during the company's Q2 earnings call. In October 2021, he reiterated that the supply chain issues could extend into 2023. Despite the chip shortage remaining an issue across various industries, Gelsinger noted how Intel's own chips are doing very well and are close to meeting the demand for its own chips, as he said during the company's Q1 2022 earnings call a few days ago. Since 2020, the chip shortage has remained an ongoing issue. Most prominent examples of the supply chain issues include the sale of the latest gaming consoles, the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X, along with new desktop GPUs from AMD and Nvidia. Though in recent weeks, it appears that the supply for Xbox Series X consoles, at the very least, is getting better and more regularly stocked at various retailers. Intel has also been one of a few companies that has been investing exponentially in new production lines, though these new fab locations are not expected to open for another 2 to 3 years. The most notable location Intel announced back in January was in Ohio, which will be home to the "largest silicon manufacturing location on the planet." At the same time, other new fabs currently under construction are located in Arizona and Germany. Taylor is the Associate Tech Editor at IGN. You can follow her on Twitter @TayNixster. In This Article Bad news to folks out there trying to get a new console like the PS5 or a fancy, more powerful graphics card for their aging PC. According to Intel, the ongoing semiconductor shortage will continue to make it hard to find and buy new electronics well into 2023.
As spotted by VGC, in an interview with CNBC published October 21, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger explained that there is some good news, that things will slowly get better. However, it could be a few years before GPU and CPU supply and production problems are completely squashed. “We’re in the worst of it now,” Gelsinger explained, “Every quarter next year we’ll get incrementally better, but they’re not going to have supply-demand balance until 2023.” This latest prediction that ongoing chip shortages and production problems will last until 2023 paints a worse picture than Xbox head Phil Spencer’s comments earlier this month. He believed that the continued lack of supply and huge demand for consoles laptops, CPU and GPUs wasn’t entirely to blame on just a semiconductor shortage, telling The Wrap that there are “multiple kind of pinch points” in the process of making and shipping high-end electronics, like an Xbox Series X/S. G/O Media may get a commission Ultimately he predicted it would last well into 2022, but didn’t say specifically if 2023 would see these same issues and shortages continue. Intel’s CEO seems to have a more dire outlook for the next two years. Almost a year after next-gen consoles first launched, Intel and Spencer’s comments are just more evidence that things aren’t getting better anytime soon. The continuing and frustrating problems created by global chip shortages, issues with covid-19, extremely high demand, annoying and shitty resellers, crypto miners, and supply-grabbin’ bots have combined to create a perfect and terrible storm that means most players are still unable to find either next-gen consoles or new GPUs on Amazon or store shelves. Even trying to buy an older console, like a PS4, is becoming near impossible for some folks. Will PS5 be readily available in 2023?Sony is reportedly making strides to end its PS5 shortage issue in 2023 as the company plans to ship 30.5 million units of its newest console in FY23. There are reports that Sony might rectify its Playstation 5 shortage issue in 2023.
Is the PS5 shortage going to end?Unfortunately, there isn't much any of us can do about this problem. The PS5 will continue to be out of stock, so all we can do is wait. The chip shortage will still affect Sony and other tech companies during 2022 and beyond. However, there's still hope.
Will the PS5 shortage end in 2024?The PS5 isn't selling as well as the PS4 did, but Sony says the problem will resolve itself within a couple of years or so. Got PS5? Sony's sleek current-gen machine is still pretty damn hard to get without a little planning ahead.
Why is there a PS5 shortage 2022?The reason? The ongoing chip shortage — yep, that's still a major issue — and shipping delays across the global supply chain. And based on Sony's decision to cut its PS5 shipments forecast by some 3.3 million units in fiscal year 2022, it's not going to get easier to snag a console soon.
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