Joris Maas Visuals

It's a fact: in the past some products were crafted too well (i.e. they never broke whatever customers did with it so the company had to wait a long time before the customer did find a legit reason to upgrade since the original piece of equipment was just so good and sturdy). BUT in this era, Canon has everything to win in my opinion since the competition actually offers just (close to) non overheating camera's that do both pretty well (albeit non-8K). In my opinion Canon should have an answer to the Sony A7III right after Sony introduced it and come up with a full frame Canon MILC within a couple of months in order to not lose customers (which happened, several sold all their Canon gear and jumped ship to Sony).

I am not sure if Canon won't fix this. Looking at the information about a Cooler for the back from a third party and a native RF adapter with built in fan it looks like crippling the camera is just part of a marketing strategy. BUT now it's basically investigated (and it all directs to Canon being doing all this crap on purpose....I am not a conspiracy type of person but how on earth is it possible that you have products ready just after the launch to deal with heat dissipation???). To me the ONLY correct answer of Canon is step forward and come clean with what they did do and if they did do it on purpose (especially the firmware settings as it comes shipped with the R5).