Microsoft’s Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, says console provide points will proceed into 2022. In an interview with The Wrap, noticed by Video Games Chronicle, Spencer admits the Xbox provide points will final for the remainder of the yr and into 2022 resulting from provide chain issues past only a chip scarcity.

“I think it’s probably too isolated to talk about it as just a chip problem,” says Spencer. “When I think about, what does it mean to get the parts necessary to build a console today, and then get it to the markets where the demand is, there are multiple kind of pinch points in that process. And I think regretfully it’s going to be with us for months and months, definitely through the end of this calendar year and into the next calendar year.”

The world chip scarcity has impacted numerous firms for 18 months now. Car producers have needed to reduce manufacturing of automobiles, and it’s been close to unimaginable to search out inventory of latest graphics playing cards, PS5s, and Xbox consoles.

Spencer isn’t alone in his predictions in regards to the provide points, both. Chip producer TSMC warned earlier this yr that the trade chip shortages might proceed by means of 2022. Last month, Nvidia stated it expects GPU provide constraints for the “vast majority” of 2022.