Are you arguing that Nikon will offer _only_ 36x24 format, with no mass market 26x16 option? I would be very surprised if it does not offer both eventually, but maybe starting with the higher volume 24x26 format mostnofbwhose customers can be satisfied with a smaller initial range of lenses. Note that every maker of 36x24 gear also has a smaller format, even Leica. That also goes for the Fujifilm example: it has a 26x16 system, and launched it first, as did Sony and as has Canon.
For Sony, Fuji and Canon was different times... first E-mount camera was released on 2011, beginning of 2012 Fuji release the X mount system, and un June Canon the first EOS-M system.
2012 was the last year of growth of camera sales, coming from 2006 were the market was growing year after year in double digits in camera sales... and the bigger sales were in low-end, middle level bodies... that’s why Canon and Sony focused at the beginning in low level bodies and lenses... they were expecting to sell lots of units and make the money.
But look how the market it is now a days, all manufacturers are focusing in the high-end bodies, since they are selling less cameras, those are the ones that give the benefits. Sigma release the ART series of lenses and focuses on quality, Olympus it’s OMD series forgetting a bit the PEN series, Panasonic puts its money on the GH video series of cameras, Sony moves to full frame mirrorless, Fuji to GFX... Nikon remembers that they had a high end series of DX cameras and releases the d500 for wildlife photographers and so on...
The camera market is focusing in the high end part... eventually, they maybe release a DX mirrorless system... but I don’t see it right now.
Anyway... I’m always wrong on my predictions... that it is way I work as computer systems engineer and not as market analyst.
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