So were you expecting a personal email form Mr Mitarai confirming this. Or maybe dpreview just lied. Even this site dropped all mention of M5 II very quickly after a few weeks on insisting it's coming. Don't get me wrong I wanted an M5 II, but the more I think about I don't want EF-M system, the same camera in RF mount would be a killer and future proof.
No, but if it were reliable info surely Canon would have said it to other places, not
just to dpreview. Or put out a press release.
Instead we got a comment, possibly mis-remembered by someone at dpreview (and that's assuming that bunch of Canon haters
isn't lying), that's utterly and completely unverified, but people seem to insist it's the gospel truth and will even go so far as to belittle those who don't believe it...as you did to sdz.
But even if a Canon rep
did in fact say that the M6-II "replaces the M5 and M6" and
did in fact know what he was talking about, all that that means is that they are discontinuing the M5 as well as the M6 (original). It does not mean they're not ever going to come out with an M5-II; it doesn't even mean that they don't already plan to do so.