on sale in Japan June 15th

If you want it sooner, you can get it from exporter White Rabbit Express: http://whiterabbitexpress.com

I'm going to get one early, as it goes on sale in Japan on June 15th

your slip is showing

Standards for amateur still and movie cameras continue to plummet to new lows.

Again this machine has no viewfinder. Again you are supposed to hold it still at arms length to be able to photograph anything at all, or film, and again the price you must pay is considerable for what is on offer.

It costs what the street price of my APS-C cmos 10MP R1 did five years ago, but that had not only a rotatable screen on top like a Rollei or Hasselblad, but an excellent EVF viewfinder as well, coupled to a 24-120 f2.8-4.8 "T" Sonnar lens, that is still a benchmark optic for its sensor size- and that sensor size is huge compared to this pokey little overcrowded thingy.

Why Sony do not simply fit their new 24MP APS-C sensor into a video enabled "R2" is a mystery to many people, as the lens is a much better one than is offerred with the Nex 7, and why the Nex 7 cannot avail itself of that same R1 optic baffles me, but not as much as the machine announced here.

sunny days

No viewfinder, its a sunny day and you cannot compose your image so regardless of specification you are at a loss as to why you just spent £550.00.
Give me a second hand Fuji S100fs with its big sensor anyday!

Bold move!

I applud SONY for the effort. The RX100 is the compact camera I've been waiting for since going digital 10 years ago. I've allready ordered it and hope it will be as good as it looks on paper. Sure I'd like it to have less megapixels and no video, but that's my personal prefs. To me this camera is all about decent image quality in a small package. A camera to have in ones pocket at all times.