The chips crisis continues to affect PS5 and Xbox Series X

The semiconductor crisis that hits the different technological companies will continue until 2024. Chips supply problems are diverse. According to experts, the demand has triggered the economic recovery, a greater demand for electronic products during the pandemic and the fact that more and more products incorporate microchips.

Cars now require a greater number of semiconductors due to the advanced systems they incorporate. Driving assistance systems and on -board computers need a large number of chips. According to experts, the increase in electric vehicles and the future of autonomous driving will further enhance this growing need.

To these factors we must add the implementation of the 5G mobile network and the great demand for new smartphones compatible with it. The demand for computers and graphics cards for cryptocurrency mining such as bitcoin should also be taken into account.

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The change of generation is resisting more than one, except for those who reserved a PlayStation 5 or a Xbox Series X before launch. Subsequently, anyone who wanted to get one of these consoles has discovered that two factors influence: luck and speed. The same case affects the latest generation graphics cards of AMD and NVIDIA, has even served to make GPUs that have been in the market for some time.

Those who desperately try to get some of these products, have been able to verify how speculation has made an appearance again in both cases. New generation consoles have an average price in the second -hand market of 868 euros, 73% more of their sale value in the market. The Sony console has reached a maximum price of € 1500 in some purchase-sale portals.

However, the generational jump is not currently an imperative need. Video games that justify the disbursement of one of these machines have not yet arrived. Much less participate in the circus of speculation. This moment of creative vacuum that we face once again at the beginning of a new generation, next to the chips crisis, is an ideal time to enjoy the wide legacy of the video game. All that large number of titles that you never got to play are there, waiting for you. And of course the blessed retro catalog, always at our disposal to save us from situations like this.

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