Poser fulfils a need in a certain area of the 3D world that I think will still need this kind of product in the future, regardless of if it's called Poser or something else. Modelling is getting simpler, yes. But modelling softwares are getting more and more advanced, so to really take advantage of all the features in a high end 3D application, there is still a quite significant learning curve involved. For the people not interested in doing that, Poser will still have its place. I don't think that will change in the immediate future. Rather the opposite: With more and more good products on the market, more people will turn to 3D work as a hobby and they want an easy-to-use product like Poser. Not everybody wants to spend their free time learning Maya just to produce a hobby render. I don't agree that "3D is getting easier and everybody is able to produce a movie". Making a good 3D animation is still tricky. It is getting easier as softwares evolve and makes it easier, but that goes for all applications. Both Poser and other softwares evolve in this area, so this does not make any of the products obsolete. Again, it makes more people able to turn to this as a hobby and makes Poser even more interesting for this category of users. As for the "Poser 5 fiasco", it's up to Curious Labs to prove that this is behind them. I'm sure they can do it. Poser 5 is right now a reasonably stable product, and they are still working hard on it.