
Xbox chief financial officer Tim Stuart has admitted that the Xbox Series X will continue to see supply shortages for the time being, with a suggestion that the supply will 'really start to be met' over the next 4-6 months.
As reported by Video Games Chronicle (and transcribed by Seeking Alpha), Stuart explained that the 2021 pre-summer months is where things are expected to pick up in terms of meeting the demand profile.
"I think we'll continue to see supply shortages as we head into the post-holiday quarter, so Microsoft's Q3, calendar Q1. 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. You'll be outside of a holiday window. We'll have supply cranking over the next, what, 4, 5, 6 months. And that's when I expect to see really that demand profile start to be met, which will be really, really great."
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has been apologising recently for the lack of Xbox Series X stock, highlighting on the Dropped Frames podcast that he believes "we're going to live in that world for a few months."
What do you make of the Xbox Series X stock shortage? Give us your thoughts in the comments.
[source videogameschronicle.com, via seekingalpha.com]
Comments (28)
I guess I'll be lucky to get a Series X or PS5 by next Christmas at this rate. Oh well, at least I've got my health.
@TimG13 by next summer they will be on shelves everywhere so your good for 2021 Christmas. I'd wait on the PS5 based on the issues, even the x from the sound of things. By April you'd expect them to fix those and the unit's should be running as expected
@Krzzystuff The couple of days I spent with my PS5, I'd go as far to say that the console just didn't even feel like it was finished. So I got rid of that mess while the gettin was good. I've sank about 48 hours on the XSX and I've had some minor issues, but nothing catastrophic. Banjo Kazooie has crashed on me once, and of course some games with quick resume are acting funny. Other than that, it's been a smooth ride.
This sucks for people who want this right now, but I am perfectly okay with waiting till next year. I'm hoping by next Summer/Fall I can just walk into a store and get one no problem.
@Kefka2589 My experience has been super smooth too.. Had the Xbox a week now, zero issues, except maybe that couple of the new games needed a quick resume patch to work, like Tetris connected.
Everything works fast and first time, quick resume into gears tactics in what feels like less than a second.
@Kefka2589 I've said before the launch that this is a beta unit they are shipping. Half the features aren't working and now these issues. Also seen reports of controllers missing all 4 symbols and even disk versions in the digital boxes. It's just rushed. They didn't want to go after Xbox cuz they knew casuals would be lost. I'm still worried about my X, first pre-order ever so that's a big part and saw some issues online but so far so good. But the PS5 issues seem to be more widespread. If you're getting a PS5 definitely wait. Xbox seems to have good customer service and will take care of you.
Hopefully I can get the S. That's all I need. S wasn't mentioned so hopefully I'm able to walk into a shop to buy one after England-land lockdown.
@Krzzystuff Lmao I saw that disc version in a digital box. I literally got a PS5 on Thursday and I've already sold it. I played with it for a couple of days and just was not happy with it. Which I love my PS4 Pro, and Sony is of course supporting it for years to come, so I'll probably just ride that wave as long as I can. But I wouldn't sweat your X too much. I really think if something major goes wrong you can just attribute it to bad luck. And like you said, MS will make it right. My buddy had a faulty controller with his XSX and he contacted them and they just mailed him another controller no questions asked.
Got a series x and touch wood, not one single issue. Even doing 4K 120FPS with HDR and VRR and not a single issue at all. Console quiet like silent even at 4K 60FPS etc assassins creed V.
A pleasure and joy to have. Got mine vertical.
The X is an amazing system so far. Too bad cyberpunk got delayed. Biggest issue right now is not having anny true next gen games to play. Quick resume is hit & mis. The new controller is amazing, the lower input delay makes such a big difference. I hope they come with a update for the elite series 2 controller. More quit than the one x.
@Krzzystuff What issues with the X? The dozen units that have a busted optical drive?
My optical drive is fine, I think it’s the same one that was in the one x and also always worked for me. You will always get a few faulty devices with a mass release of a new electronic device.
Hopefully, by the time im finally able to get a ps5/xbsx, they will have ironed out the hardware/software problems.
As someone who plans on waiting until late 2021 to buy a Series X, this isn't so bad to me.
We’ll see this with both consoles sadly. I cancelled a PS5 preorder as I’m pretty happy with the X and decided to save some money. Hearing about some of the issues didn’t help either the PS5 does seem to be a bit rushed out, I still can’t get used to how ugly it is. I’ll pick one up next year when things have been ironed out. Plenty to play on the Xbox so I’m happy.
@Kefka2589 Wow, I hadn't heard you flipped your PS5 in mere days! I finally just got mine today....after a few heart attacks that I thought it was lost or stolen at the UPS terminal...it showed up.
Was looking forward to getting into it but...wow
I have zero interest in a PS5, but it sounds like I may have to wait awhile for my XSX. I figured this would be case, regardless, as I hate pre-ordering consoles.
It's to be expected, Expect to see nothing but Switch consoles in store this holiday.. Nintento Switch is gonna kill it this holiday...
Glad I managed to get both preordered. Got my XSX on release day, fingers crossed my PS5 will arrive Thursday so I can play Spider-Man MM. Best of luck to anyone getting either or both anytime soon. Be persistent.
@NEStalgia glad to hear you finally got yours. How are you liking it so far? It seems insane to me that anyone would change their mind and sell theirs so quickly; I certainly won't. Got my fingers and toes crossed that mine arrives Thursday. No news on it shipping yet, hopefully later today (Tuesday in my time zone).
@Krzzystuff no issues with my XSX so far, whisper quiet. Been playing daily since release day delivery, mostly Gears Tactics. The only noise I hear is my external HDD occasionally being accessed. The system itself makes very little sound unless you're installing a disc-based game. Unfortunately, a minority of potentially faulty consoles will spread like wildfire online. Many of these reports are likely false too, like the ridiculous "smoking" videos that are clearly people just putting vape through the system.
@NEStalgia Lol I was NOT a fan. Which really, I love the PS4. It's the only console I even had last gen. But all my worst expectations about the PS5 just started coming true. Miles Morales was pretty meh in my book. I played about 3/4s of it and just had no desire to finish it. Demons Souls was awesome, but just not enough for me to merit keeping the thing. So all in all, good games, but I just hated the console itself. To me it basically just felt like a PS4 with better graphics and audio, and pretty much worse everything else. Nothing really seemed very well thought out. I was just having such an overly pleasent experience with the Series X that the buyers remorse set in hard. I had paid $180 for three PS5 games and all I wanted to do was get on Xbox and play stuff on Game Pass. So I had until the end of Saturday to take my games back to Gamestop and get full credit back, so I jumped on that while I could. Then sold the PS5 to my cousin. I'll probably get another one a few years from now after a hardware revision and some third party controllers exist. Every Dualsense on this planet could get loaded onto a rocket and shot into the sun for all I care. I've never hated a controller so much. The fact that I can turn off the haptics and adaptive triggers, yet I still cant use my Dualshock 4 to play a PS5 game was the last straw for me. It's the freakin same controller minus a mic built in. It just felt inexcusable. I'm currently pretty cross with Sony. So I'm going to give them as little money as possible for a while.
But all my grunting aside, I'm glad yours finally showed up!
@IsThatATitleist3 @ajdarkstar yeah it's mainly the disk drive that's the worry...i haven't tried mine yet to be honest
@Krzzystuff it's noisy, but no worse than the Xbox One drive. The odds of getting a faulty one are very slim. Once it's finished installing a game it's fine, but I wouldn't want to watch UHD blu-rays on it. That was part of the reason I upgraded to X1S, but I got a stand-alone player with DV as soon as I found one for a decent price. Xboxes just make too much noise playing films from disc.
@AJDarkstar It's actually the same disc drive that was in the XBOX ONE X And disc drives usually are noisy, especially slot in drives.
@sanderev I figured as much to be honest. It's probably the same drive as the X1S too. It's certainly no faster at installing normal blu-ray games, but UHD disc games should be a touch faster on account of the data pits being a touch narrower.
@Kefka2589 So far, I'm liking the PS5 as well, though the XSX is definitely my favorite. PS5 feels kind of....incomplete. Obvious features are just missing or barely supported.
I don't hate the Dual Sense. It's without question, Sony's best controller to date. The DS4 was cheap and awful. The DS3 was horrendous. DS2 was ok for it's time. DS1 was a duct taped N64 me-too device. yet, oddly, Dual Sense is the largest controller I've ever held since The Duke. And the console is so huge and hideous it's almost glorious!
While the Dual Sense actually is decent (for a Sony controller) it's heavy and wide. The materials feel more premium than the XSX controller, but the XSX controller simply fits the hand like a glove, and you don't even know it's there. XSX has the best controller ever designed (though I still am sad it's missing gyros.)
Haptic triggers are disappointing. I didn't even notice Miles was using them. Supposedly it does.
3D audio apparently only works with USB headsets and plugging into the controller.....using headphones from a stereo output on HDMI? Tough luck, same old stereo for you. (X1X has had Atmos Headphone for years now....) I'm sure they'll fix that eventually.
The UI is....rough. I kind of like it. It's a nice simplification of UI elements that were obtuse and messy in PS4. It returns one of the fun UI elements from PS3 - the game specific music and background when hovering over it. But so much of menu navigation is just missing. Searching for games doesn't even exist, you have to scroll through the library.
Using it is nice, and I like it, but its "A box to play Sony games on." I'd go nuts if I had to play third party games on it. And the community's endless chorus of "you only need one or two games at a time, just finish it and delete it" feels like it came from 1995. Are PS fans really all that backward? Thankfully I only need to play one or two games on it at a time. Because all the others are on my XBox........ But that's how I used PS4, too...
PS5 is cool, but it should have been cool for $400, not $500. They put everything into that SSD, and while I've no doubt that SSD's performance makes loading and things with some new games very nice, Miles is certainly speedy, it's not like the load times on XSX are annoying, it was too soon for that tech, the size is too small, and coupled with the software limitations for backup we're left with the fans screaming "you don't need more than a few games at once! It's more than enough for most people!"
There's a lot to complain about, and yet, that's not to say I don't like it. I like it. As a second console. the same way I liked Wii. I'm glad to have it, and I'll enjoy having it. Its nice in its own way, as it's own thing with its own content. A nice little walled garden. Very Nintendo-like. It's not a general purpose gaming device though. XBox is for that.
@NEStalgia I don't think the Dualsense is poorly constructed or anything, my issue is purely the ergonomics of it. I have teeny tiny hands. I mean, I wear a size 5 ring. The controller, like The Duke, is literally so big I can barely use it. I feel like Stretch Armstrong every time I pull the thumbstick all the way down or reach for the L1 button. It's so uncomfortable that it just distracts me from the game. I much much much prefer the Dualshock 4 in every conceivable way.
I only noticed them in MM on accident because I was trying to swing and it just felt annoying. Then turned them off and thought, "Oh, that's better."
The PS5 UI is bordering on worthless to me. Whoever decided to make the trophy page scroll horizontally instead of vertically needs to be fired. You can't read the entire trophy description without going into each individual icon. It's so utterly obtuse it makes me think whoever designed it has no intention of actually using it. So, probably Jim Ryan himself.
I have 45 games installed on my Series X. Granted they are a lot of smaller titles and 360 games. But it's a beautiful thing. I feel like I'm channel surfing at times.
My PS4 Pro will just remain my Sony machine for the time being. There's still plenty of good stuff in the pipes, and to be fair I have so much content on Xbox right now I'd have to look for a reason to turn on the PS4 anyway. And perhaps that's a lot of my frustration. For four generations PS has been my general purpose platform. And as you said, it feels like a walled garden. This obtuse mammoth of a device designed purely to run Sony's 1st party titles. It's just utterly disappointing to me. That isn't to say the lions share of people won't love it, because they will, and that's okay. But the inability for players to be able to use a Dualshock 4 instead of a Dualsense is just an inexcusable circumstance to me. That decision was made purely by Sony and could be changed by Sony. So I don't know. I just can't do it. The buyers remorse was intense. Lol
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