Units sold is the only number that's important for market share. Total revenue in Japanese currency is irrelevant because currencies are not equal in all markets. No need to convolute a basic unit sales number.
The report is very expensive.
www.t-s-r.co.jp
Sony doesn't sell to themselves. Vendors report items purchased. Sales numbers do not necessarily have to come directly from Sony. Research companies do not have to rely on Sony to report unit sales. That is just another source. Sony's shipped units do no account for units sold and units not sold. That would come from the vendors. No Sony financial will display those numbers.
Personally I would not call 32.1% close at all. Especially since Sony basically had over five year head start on Canon in the mirrorless segment. For Canon to walk Sony down in that segment and put them in their rear view mirror is a testament to Sony's executive turn over and Canon's expertise in the markets.
Too late. Sony has been and will most likely always be perceived as "expensive". That's the bed they made for themselves long ago. Some consumer items deserve that "high end" sticker. But nearly everything Sony sells is considerably priced 10 - 20% higher than any other manufacturer. High end marketing on non high end products. Most everything they sell is absurdly 10% higher than anyone elses. And if they are not, the average consumer expects them to be. Electronic products now being manufactured out of Beijing have undermined the consumer magnet to the Sony brand.Maybe they need to make something cheaper then the R100 such as an R1000 to fill in the gaps
Sony has been playing musical chairs with the camera division for multiple years, so you couldn't even track if the the place where it landed became more or less profitable. I think they stopped doing that 2 years ago, so we might have a better guess at its performance. That they stopped trying to hide the performance implies that it's finally performing as expected.
Not that many people buy cameras costing $6000. I just did a rough estimate of Fuji's MF cameras that are in the same price ballpark, and even if 10% of the ILCs Fuji sold are GFX models (that's probably a big overestimate), they're selling around 15K units per year.
Limited supply is part of Fuji's strategy.
So most company would not tell the selling because it really affect their image from their fans.
Canon had a large entrenched market to start with >50% of the overall market share in cameras. Most of the majority of shooters at one point in time was shooting on either Canon or Nikon, myself included. As SLRs started to slowdown, many of those shooters converted to mirrorless. How many real system switchers are out there? Probably less than what these troll posts want to make you believe. It really wasn't that long ago that Sony had no real system to speak of, and you just have to look at their previous Alpha system and the Minolta A-mount to see Sony's "let's try this and let's try that" approach among their many past experimentations and failings in consumer electronics before they smartened up.
