Xbox boss Phil Spencer suggests Series X and Series S supply issues will continue into 2022

(Pocket-lint) - Microsoft's caput of Xbox Phil Spencer has suggested that the ongoing shortage of Series X and Series S consoles volition proceed into 2022.

Speaking to The Wrap, the Xbox brag admitted that the planetary spot shortage wasn't the lone contented successful delivering the existent console generation, and that the occupation would apt proceed into adjacent year.

"I deliberation it’s astir apt excessively isolated to speech astir it arsenic conscionable a spot problem," helium said.

"When I deliberation about, what does it mean to get the parts indispensable to physique a console today, and past get it to the markets wherever the request is, determination are aggregate benignant of pinch points successful that process.

"And I deliberation regretfully it’s going to beryllium with america for months and months, decidedly done the extremity of this calendar twelvemonth and into the adjacent calendar year.

While Spencer's comments are disappointing for those looking to prime up 1 of the latest consoles, it's besides not wholly unexpected - and echoes what PlayStation brag Jim Ryan has antecedently stated regarding PS5 shortages.

Earlier this month, Toshiba besides warned that powerfulness regularisation chips are facing shortages good into adjacent year, and perchance adjacent into 2023.

While the absorption connected proviso issues has often zeroed successful connected the deficiency of RTX graphics cards from Nvidia and different physics components, Spencer is the archetypal to item the different complexities successful delivering consoles globally, and notes that the institution is moving to resoluteness the problems.

"The happening that’s astir disappointing is conscionable the instrumentality disappointment,” Spencer said.

"People truly privation this caller procreation of consoles - they’re bully consoles, some from america and the different level holders - and they privation the caller functionality.

"We’re moving hard to bring them to marketplace but it’s going to beryllium a situation that we’ll enactment done for rather a while."

Just erstwhile we genuinely spot a instrumentality to immoderate benignant of normality successful the console proviso marketplace remains to beryllium seen, naturally, but the concern does look to beryllium improving each the clip - adjacent if it's astatine a dilatory rate. 

For those inactive trying to prime 1 up, though, support connected apical of our Xbox Series X and Series availability and deals tracker.

Writing by Conor Allison. Originally published connected 30 September 2021.