If you're already considering that, then the worst strategy you can have is trying to convince others to become your competition.

Maybe he's trying to convince others to join his company. ;-)

I do think he could be onto something. Will it mean the extinction of Poser? Probably not. I don't think Poser is for the masses. It's too slow and difficult, and likely always will be. The rise of games could eventually mean a much smaller Poser market, though. Not so much current users leaving, as the influx of new users falling, going to game stuff instead. Will this game stuff be just as good as Poser? No, probably not. But a lot of people won't care. They just want to dress up the latest toon babe in pretty clothes, and make her do what they want, without spending hours at it.

And gaming, I think, is still in its infancy. Big-name actors are just starting to lend their talents to games. (And why are they doing it? Because they suspect this is the Next Big Thing.) People don't buy a lot of Sims stuff now, but they may eventually. The prices may have to come down, though. Just as Poser users generally don't pay TurboSquid prices for models, Sims users probably won't pay Poser prices.