Mikehit said:
KirkD said:
Given the market analysts graphs, Sony will become #1 in the world by the end of the first quarter 2019 UNLESS Canon really ups their FF mirrorless game.
Canon 50% of the market share, Sony 30-ish%. Canon droppiong 2% per year, Sony increasing 11% per year.
Sony to be #1 by this time next year?
Please show the the analyst's analysis that you refer to.
Sentences beginning with "Analysts show" bear as much weight as those qualified by, "Some people say" 8)
But anyways, comparing the Canon numbers to Sony... Want some numbers? Here, take a look at Sony sales, worldwide, by business segment:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/297533/sony-sales-worldwide-by-business-segment/
Imaging Products & Solutions is the green wedge. In billions of $USD
2012 - 7.16
2013 - 7.77
2014 - 7.20
2015 - 6.00
2016 - 6.29
2017 - 5.18
WAIT. Imaging dropped by 17%? But I thought they were going to take over the world. Surely this is Fake News. What is this BS website anyways. Why don't we go to the source?
https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/stock/shareholders_meeting/Meeting100/100_Consolidated_Financial_Statements.pdf
Page 6 from Sony. Imaging (in millions of Yen), excluding intersegment:
2015 - 696.89
2016 - 677.23
2017 - 571.50
No, that's because it's a mix of other stuff. I mean, imaging is printers and all sorts of other things. FAKE NEWS.
So let's go to Page 10, and look at the breakdown of Imaging - Still and Video Cameras (millions of Yen):
2015 - 478,099
2016 - 428,777
2017 - 351,834
So, Sony, between 2016 and 2017 - had an 18% year over year drop in operating revenue to external customers of still and video cameras. Well, I guess the drop was all in the video cameras, because
some people analysts say that the mirrorless full frame market is worth trillions of dollars and will rule the world economy by 2025. Because, some analysts say, a US$3,000 camera kit (FF body + lens) that needs a body refresh every 18 or so months is where the money is (
and you thought lightroom subscriptions were expensive).