As the availability of PS5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles grow, support of the previous generation may not last as long as some may have expected.
An unfortunate inevitability with console generations is that the new hardware often releases and quickly supplants last-gen consoles. Obviously in 2020 it’s a special case, considering the Covid-19 pandemic caused industry slowdown worldwide, and not just in the video game industry. Hardware manufacturing slowed to a crawl due to reduced manpower, safety precautions, and an overall shortage of necessary components, all of which affected PS5 and Xbox Series X/S production. Over a year after the pandemic began, console shortages are starting to wane off as more hardware is manufactured and shipped, but next-gen consoles are still relatively difficult to…

