The slow-roll of the R5 (and R6) announcement reinforces my view that these new cameras will be introduced at blockbuster prices below USD $3,000. Canon has already dribbled out most of the specs, benefitting from months of media hype and speculation. What shocking news is left now to make headlines on the official announcement day? An industry-shocking low-price that sucks the air from competitors' sails and generates an immediate and huge back-order list that will keep your factories humming for many months despite a pandemic that has consumers hoarding their cash. Folks, this is not business as usual for Canon or anyone else. Companies are not so much worried about profits now as much as survival. Anyways, just my 2 cents. Obviously, I could be wrong.
They are not going to lower the starting price in any way, especially for desirable products like these, that's for sure, the IBIS on it own for any EF or RF lenses is very attractive for most people.
They almost always increase prices with new cameras and lenses, one exemption was the 1DX Mark II, which was "only" 6000$ over the 6800$ for the original 1DX (maybe the exchange rate was much different before), but now the Mark III is back again at 6500$.
(and no, there is no 'special pandemic package' with 2x1TB CFExpress cards for free...)
The MSRP of the 5D Mark IV, which is generally the "level" of what this camera is aimed at was 3500$.
And this camera looks to be much stronger and better featured, having things like 4k120p, which is not even in the 1DX Mark III, it seems like a much bigger jump forward.
So the MSRP would surely increase. But over 4000$ seems to much, so it looks to be a decent starter point, or maybe even slightly higher for the few first months, were people could struggle to even get one, no matter how much it is going to cost, people may be trying to flip them for a profit, like it was with the BMPCC4K initially. Canon is not stupid, they might do this initial flipping profit bit from themselves, if they did their market research about setting the right pricing, they certainly know the availability better than we do.
The R6 will be in a completely different, lower class (so cheaper RF lenses are definitely coming) and its pricing can be determined easier once we know how much it has been crippled in comparison, but from the semi-vague specs it looks to be around the 2000$ mark, where the 6D Mark II started, but with way worse video specs, depends if it uses a lower capacity battery, if the dynamic range of the sensor remains in the low category, just like it did with the 6D Mark II over the 6D, etc.
The R6 certainly looks to be very appealing to the YT creator market, which seems to be growing for now as well as the 'cheap' new Canon mirrorless camera to shoot weddings with, since it looks to come with two card slots (UHS-II seems to be logical as well, smallest and cheapest)