Shtinamin_ said:
Why do investors think that Nintendo has to launch the successor this year? |
Because we want to see profits year-on-year. The higher the dividend, the happier the shareholder, and those dividends are generated by profits.
This isn't to say that launching next year will damage Nintendo long term, but it is likely to reduce the amount of profit seen in this fiscal year. Shareholders generally think in the short term, because shares are so easy bought and sold that you're invested in the company only as long as you're holding your share. Even those that think in the long term generally have goals or quotas to meet and want an explanation for why a company is missing out on an opportunity to profit and there would certainly be profit in selling Switch 2 systems this holiday.
