Availability of consoles

when demand drops.

and when the global chip shortage comes to an end as this is making it difficult for all manufacturers currently, the chip shortage is expected to ease in about a year then things may return to normal in about 16 months or longer.

Not to mention the worldwide ship shortage due to bitcoin miners who are taking advantage of the chaos

That's why chip manufacturers are disabling chips randomly to make them inefficient for minjng

Currently chips are so low that car manufacturers are slowing down production

There are only two silicone factories in the world

The constant demand for new consumer products like smatt cars options, GPS, phones consoles computers etc are causing this

Even sony has trouble and predicts it will last till 2022-24 until they can reduce the silicone used and they use a crazy amount because of the shape of the console

If you do a fast Google you will find thousands of articles on how every aspect of manufacturing is impacted by the pandemic, especially the electronics industry

That's why chip manufacturers are disabling chips randomly to make them inefficient for mining

The 'chips' for Series X are designed and built only for the Series X, they aren't off the shelf and are therefore not affected by the bitcoin crypto-currency boom.

[quote user="Enraged Bacon"]

If I recall correctly. I think most of the 360 launch games were on shelves and available to buy on the 15th. I know I purchased Call of Duty 2 before the hardware was available.

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yep, a lot of the 360 launch titles were out before the system