corleone1 opened this issue on Mar 25, 2008 ยท 285 posts
svdl posted Fri, 28 March 2008 at 4:47 PM
I think Deecey is correct.
I also think that it wouldl take another 5 to 10 years before DAZ|Studio has functionality comparable to Poser.
If that is what DAZ wants to do with D|S. Some of the new functions in the latest version of D|S make me think that DAZ wants to target the 3D game market. Which would be a smart move, the game market is bigger than the movies market (yes, including the Hollywood blockbusters). There's a LOT of money to be made in games!
I wonder what Smith MIcro is going to do with Poser. I expect them to release Poser Pro somewhere in 2008, they will want to get some revenue to set off the cost of purchasing Poser. But after that? Who knows. I wouldn't be surprised if they went after the game market too.
Hey, even Microsoft is doing it. I read their purchase of trueSpace as a step into the game creation market, I expect to see a sort of XNA Game Studio Pro, including a 3D modeler based on TrueSpace, appear pretty soon.
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