The HaCS kickoff Major Raleigh 2021 started last Friday, as one of the first Halo Infinite tourneys to feature the best names in esports. OpTic, G2, eUnited, and Cloud9 competed for a $250,000 prize, with Cloud9 coming to the top of the prize. It’s related: Halo Infinite: Classing the Gadgets from Least to Most Useful! However, players might have noticed that their game consoles were slightly different from those that you would see in-store. Because 343 esports had to use Microsoft dev kits for the tournament because every available series X was sent to retail for the holidays. ‘Heads up open bracket players!’ – you’re going to play on the series X development console,” wrote 343 esports star Tahir Hasandjekic just days before the tournament begin (courtesy of Kotaku). They are functionally identical and are changing a type of report, so they just look a little different. There are many reasons why global supply chains are sloppy, but the biggest is the chip shortage. The vast majority of the world’s computer chips originate from one place: TSMC, and they don’t really have enough of the increasing demand for these chips anymore. Combine it with the snafus logistical that led to the ongoing pandemic and the demand for new game consoles for unprecedented demand and a recipe for million disappointed holiday shoppers. As far as a group goes, there was at least one football tournament to start. Don’t expect everything to be better at all soon. Phil Spencer expects that the Xbox shortage will continue until next year, and Intel doesn’t think there will be enough chips to travel around until 2023. That’s why Sony is considering making its own computer chips for the PS5 console.
