Halo Infinite: The lack of components takes its toll on the tournaments, the details!

Game news Halo Infinite: The lack of components takes its toll on the tournaments, the details!

Published on 12/21/2021 12:41 PM

Available on PC, Xbox Series and Xbox One since December 8th, Halo Infinite will stay in the news thanks to its multiplayer and possible expansions. Today we are going to focus on multiplayer and the problems that arise in organizing a tournament.

As you may know when you have tried to get a next-gen console in the last year, a global semiconductor shortage affects all industries that use computer hardware. The video game industry is clearly concerned, and that even affects the official Halo Infinite tournaments run by Microsoft.

No Xbox Series X? Microsoft to the rescue!

This story takes us to the United States, near North Carolina. In this state an official Halo Infinite tournament, the HCS Kickoff Major Raleigh 2021, recently took place. All participants had to own an Xbox Series X, the tournament was played on the new Microsoft console. Problem, it is still quite difficult to get the machine, even if with the approach of the holidays some copies could be seen in supermarkets. As a result, some registered players simply did not have an Xbox Series X available to play their games.

Heads-Up Open Bracket Player – You’ll be playing on the X Series Development Consoles this weekend. They are functionally identical and operate in “retail” mode, so it’s exactly the same experience, they just look a little different.

Why? The global supply chain shortage is real.

– Tashi (@ Tashi343i) December 15, 2021

Watch out for the open board players – they will be playing on the X-Series Development Consoles this weekend. They are functionally identical and work in “Retail” mode so it’s the exact same experience, they just see a little different. Why ? The global shortage of supply chains is real.

Instead of canceling or postponing the tournament, Microsoft came up with an original idea, to say the least. Indeed, the builder just decided to get hold of some Xbox Series X development kits

, and set them up so that players can play the game on them as if they were playing with a business model. These machines for developers, have a mode that allows you to run the devkit as if it were a console sold in the market for test purposes. According to Intel, the shortage is to be felt by 2023even if factories gradually increase their production. AT THEMD, which equips consoles of the new generation, and Qualcomm, for their part, claim to be able Solving the problem in 2022.

Via Halo Infinite and Multiplayer