P5 is real cheap right now at Amazon. Fire Fly works OK with me. I haven't tried Vue and Poser except the demo version free on their site. I do a lot of renders in comic book style so I need to quickly render/pose/render and so forth. Vue is probably great for those single shot girl with sword pics but I found it too much of a hassle to quickly do work. P5 is very stable with the latest patch but is a memory and CPU hog. As people said, if you're not needing the better features then maybe waiting to see what Daz comes out with might be better. But if you have disposable income then P5 is real cheap right now.