6D shutter speed limitation

Dear all,
I am a new member but in the same time an old Canon owner.
I am thinking of an upgrade and these days I've read and watched some reviews, pro and cons, etc about Canon products and specially the battle between 5D Mk2 vs.6D.
Now, depending of how anyone will use the 6D camera there are some good but also some weak points.
At this moment for me this is the main reason that keeps me insecure in buying the 6D .
I really found this as a joke because my old 350D have 1/4000 max shutter speed and on the other hand 7D and even 60Da, 60D (all these below a full frame camera) have higher value (1/8000 max shutter speed).
Helping me to choose the right product , I just wanted to know if this is a truly hardware shutter limitation or there will be a firmare update in the future in order to unlock the higher value .
In my humble opinion after so many years of research and development , you simply can't downgrade a product in order to fit in the market unless there are no reliable technical explanations .
It will be great if we all new potential buyers will receive a positive answer from a Canon Product manager for example because if you do some ggl search you'll find this a commonly discussed subject about the 6D.
Thank you,

canonuser78 wrote:
I really found this as a joke because my old 350D have 1/4000 max shutter speed and on the other hand 7D and even 60Da, 60D (all these below a full frame camera) have higher value (1/8000 max shutter speed).
... you cannot compare the 6d to aps-c because the larger full-frame shutter has to move a larger distance, that's also the reason why the cheaper 60d and so on have 1/250s x-sync and even the 5d3 only has 1/200s (1dx 1/250s, though that is an embarrassment because the competition is better and the original 1d managed 1/500 x-sync and 1/16000 shutter).
Though concerning the 6d I guess the spec limitations are motivated by marketing and keeping the 5d3 on top, thus at least a higher x-sync might very well be enabled by firmware if Canon would want to.

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