Matt Piscatella, executive director of Circana and game industry analyst, said that if Nintendo Switch 2 were launched in the first half of this year, sales in the US would reach 4.3 million units this year, accounting for about one-third of all video game console hardware sales throughout the year. Supply and demand may also be an influencing factor, and Piscatella anticipates that hardware (supply) will be limited for a few months after a sharp surge in early demand. Piscatella notes that he still expects Sony's PS 5 to be the best-selling game console in the US. According to Statista data, the total sales volume of the first generation Switch in the US in 2017 was about 4.88 million units, and it still faced serious supply and demand problems at the time.