1. D’YA WANT A CHIP?

    If only this was as simple as nipping to your local fish shop, ehh… Although ironically we are left feeling a little salty at reports of the technological grail that is the Semiconductor Chip, and its shortage continuing into 2024.

    For those of us still breaking our backs to try and secure a next gen console, be it the Xbox Series X/S or the PlayStation 5, this is not the news we’ve been wanting to receive. According to Pat Gelsinger, the CEO of Intel in a recent interview, the original shortage was projected to subside around 2023. However, the immense strain on the manufacturing equipment itself is where it’s gotten a lot trickier!

    All things considered, these titans of gaming have still sold incredibly well with the Xbox shifting over 10 million units, and the PS5 not too far off the 20 million mark! It does leave us wondering just how many would have been sold if a world halting event like COVID hadn’t reared its ugly head… But this game is full of what ifs.

    With the digital age in full swing, chips go into everything these days! Cars, phones, household appliances, not just our mouths! This is a prime example of how heavily certain industries have been hit by the pandemic, and how we’ll need to suffer a further wait for the luxuries we long to own.

    Lets hope that we’re all in next-gen gaming paradise as soon as physically possible. Until then we’ll just have to actually talk to our families. Snakes and Ladders anyone?


    -Jack