Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Figure support

gagnonrich opened this issue on Apr 18, 2006 · 21 posts


gagnonrich posted Wed, 26 April 2006 at 10:38 AM

Thanks for checking those additional details! Here's what the two listings look like when combined:

 

3600         Victoria 3

1140         Aiko

1020         Victoria

720           Michael 3

690           Stephanie 3

480           Michael

291           David

284           Laura

220           Jessi

180           Miki

141           James

136           Maddie

135           The Girl

122           Judy

121           Hiro

95             Apollo Maximus

94             Animedoll

90             Koshini 1 & 2

87             Freak

80             Luke

72             Terai Yuki

68             Posette

60             Matt

52             Kiki

48             Rosy Cheeks Lina

34             Ichiro

32             Laroo

26             Sara

24             Koji

19             Alexa

13             HER

11             staci

 

I'm surprised that Sara has so few products because that figure has a lot of independent support and even at least one website wholly devoted to the character.

I looked at Don under the P5 only heading and there's only 7 products there, but that seems low if Judy has 122.

 At least I was on the money about Koji having 20-40 products and that the other three Teen/PreSchool figures added up to less than for Laura (284 products for Laura vs. 276 for the other three combined).

It's a little scary that the two Victoria figures, combined, account for almost half of all Poser figure products sold (4,620 out of 10,185) (a good percentage of the total number will be double counting items that support multiple figures). To throw in another number, there are 1720 products under Sets & Props to compare figure support versus prop support (keeping in mind that props won't have many double counts because they're mostly stand-alone products with minimal, if any, expansion support).

Another measure of support would be counting freebies because freebies represent which products people are using a lot. It was the volume of freebies for Aiko3 that got me curious about where the figure was standing in commercial sales. Commercial products only represent what merchants want to sell and often are slanted to perceptions of which figures are selling.

The first time I did one of these counts, I was shocked at how little support the figures, that come free with Poser, have received. Part of the problem is that the Poser figures are relatively old even though the meshes have been updated a bit. If memory serves me right, Jessi and James are still based on the old P4 female and male meshes. E-Frontier can shake up the Poser marketplace if they release new advanced figures with the next update of Poser. Their announcement of new second generation figures so far sound less like advances then unifying the line to take the same textures and morphs.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon