Cool story, bro.
It's why the RX100 line is stone, cold dead.
That narrows it down to the RX100VI and VII(A).
Let's see, just some examples of the rumors:
It’s pretty clear that Sony abandoned the RX and all other CyberShot lines six years ago. All work, even firmware updates, abruptly ceased then, presumably because of an executive decision from above.
Has production for the M7 stopped? I know it's overpriced for such an old camera, but there is nothing like it in the market. I would still strive for new if possible.
Why are you quoting an April Fool's post as being relevant?
IMO that post / those specifications are about as relevant as anything else I've seen. They're all somewhere on the spectrum of plausible speculation at best, to ridiculous fantasy or parody at worst.
I think that if there were to be a true RX1007 successor, it would have to be completely re-thought and heavily based on mobile phone technology, that would allow much better performance from the small package. Modern phones have numerous innovations that deliver much higher resolution, much better low light performance, shallow DoF portraits, lots of AI assistance, live streaming to the web, etc. That’s what buyers now expect.
Maybe intended only for Europe and UK, the production has dropped back to intermittent small batches made every (possibly) 3 months to satisfy back orders it seems.
If they were working on a successor, there would be little need to bring out an RX100M7A unless the successor would be a significant stepback in some regard (like the RX100M6 was compared to the RX100M5 with regard to maximum aperture, justifying the release of an RX100M5A).
It was cancelled in 2019.
There will be no successor. The CyberShot division was abruptly shut down six years ago. Otherwise the M7 would have been released a few months later than it was, with more features, and there would have been an M8 by the end of 2021. We would have been speculating by now about when the M10 would arrive.
That was an April fools joke. That said my RX100VII is good enough the way it is and I desire nothing better.
Yes, but it seems to me at least as plausible as many of the other RX100 rumors we've seen over the years. At least with this subject, the lines dividing April Fool's joke from 'legitimate' rumor from wishcasting seem pretty blurry to me.
As far as good enough, my RX100 IV remains a very capable camera for its size. There are times when I wish for a VII or a Va, and if money were no object, I'd own one of each. Way back before there was even a Mk. II, I rented an original RX100 for a special trip, and it amazed me. If it had had a viewfinder and lens not quite so slow at the long end, it would have seemed perfect at the time. Of course time and capability march on; my take on the future, hopes, and possibilities:
You won’t get either. This camera range died six years ago.
