Utterly disagree. There is a large division there which is in the recognition that those "fast" renders are NOT as good as the best renders in a more advanced rendering engine, as the game engines are not capable of matching the stuff that can be produced by Firefly in Poser, Carrara, C4D, and lightwave, to just name a few. Game engines are hardware dependent, which is a temendously limiting factor when you take into account that the the overwhelming majority of systems in use by hobbiest and casual users are typically 2 to 3 generations back from the leading edge. Even forecasting ahead two years as you have done, you aren't including the current development on the leading edge rendiering systems -- renderman itself is being upgraded right now, with a plan for a further advancement within the next year. As the various higer end technologies drop down and into the lower cost programs you'll still see that current gap. To achieve the looks that these game engines have at their best requires a tremendous amount of backend work which simply isn't liely to occurr -- they operate on ultimately different prinicples and structures than most of the current content for poser is built on -- stuff that is not likely to be changed either easily nor quickly. Therefore, I disagree. While it might be the next big thing insofar as gaming fans are concerned, it will be engine specific (meaning there will be several varieties) and hardware dependent. This limits it's overall ability to be absorbed. Lastly, the gaming market is still undeveloped as a decent marketplace -- I agree that there should be a gmax forum and one dedicated to building up a set of tools for gamer enthusiasts in general, but most of them are not after using Poser as a toolset for either animating (for which these tools you note are poor) or for creating stills of NVIATWAS, but rather are interested in creating mods for the game systems or games themselves. This is a good market, but a separate one with some crossover. It's also one I've been eyeing myself.

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