Global chip shortage has become a nightmare for gamers and tech people

If you think chip shortages are so bad now, we have bad news: It’s going to get much worse in the near future.

The global semiconductor chip shortage has had a major impact on the technology industry for more than a year. However, following the wave of news coming from gaming hardware companies this past week, things seem to be getting worse. They said they will face many difficulties in the coming year.

The first is that Nintendo said it will revise down its projected Nintendo Switch sales by 1.5 million units from its original projection for the fiscal year. The reason is because the shortage of chips raging makes them lack of components to produce machines. According to Ko Shiota, General Manager of Nintendo’s Technology Development Division, they are looking for alternative components, but we still don’t know if that will help the machine to reduce the shortage.

Valve’s Steam Deck has also been delayed from December 2021 to February 2022. Valve said it is doing its best to solve the problems of the global supply chain, but due to material shortages, the components do not arrive in time to production facilities, resulting in them not being able to produce in time to sell. Currently, if you order the Steam Deck, it is expected that you will have to wait until the second half of next year to get it.

Sony is expected to produce less PS5 than the original target. They had previously set a target of being able to ship 16 million units in the current fiscal year (the fiscal year ending March 2022), now that’s down to 15 million. Certainly, the already scarce supply is now even more scarce and the sales target of 22.6 million PS5 units in the upcoming financial year will certainly be very difficult for Sony. In addition, Microsoft’s Xbox side also said that the shortage of Xbox consoles has continued from September to now and will continue until 2022.

And so far we’ve only talked about gaming hardware. The problem is much broader than that. Intel said the chip shortage could last until at least 2023. Apple, which is famous for its supply chain control, also lost as much as $6 billion last quarter to chip shortages. The problem is now pervading the entire semiconductor industry and is likely to get worse in the near future. So if you are a gamer or a techie, prepare yourself, because your favorite toys will be difficult to buy.

Source The Verge compiled GVN360

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