"Hopefully this wont Erupt in to a Flame war but I think Daz studio is truly poised to overtake poser within 24-36 months"

It depends very much on what you mean by overtake.

In these sorts of threads it seems most people post from a personal point of view. Logical but narrow.  Keep in mind not everyone is a content creator nor does everyone want to be an advanced user. If that were the case there would be next to no interest in products to make it all easier. So the better question will studio overtake poser for average user market. Odds are in its favor for several reason. First and foremost is the fact that daz activity increases the size of the market with studio. They actively pushed to bring new users to the industry not just convert already existing users of other software. On the other hand, the buzz has been that SM would prefer to pick up pro users and have not focused on the new user market or converting users from other potentially "hobby" softs.  

Looking at a few polls the percentage of studio users has grown over the last year and may already consist of 25% of the market. If dynamics are not a bust and work with less pain and frustration that will encourage some poser users to cross over on a more regular basis.

Until recently most daz users simply expected to have to spend time redoing most of what they bought so it would function properly in daz. Newer users are shifting away from that toward an expectation of more products that work properly in daz and will have that reinforced when dynamics products come out that can only be used in daz properly. Hard to say what impact better support by independent creators will have on studio user numbers however.

I prefer daz, its never cost me as much as poser did because I only buy what I will actually use as far as plug in's etc go. I create for both so I use both frequently. Stability wise I'd go with studio, but that may be because poser has crashed on me a half dozen times in 48 hours while I was doing test renders where as daz almost never gives me trouble.

If I were betting I would bet that due bringing in new users and ease of use studio would match or pass poser numbers wise in the next year or two. But, I'd put money on Vue to pass both of them at some point. I still don't have it but have never heard anything but praise for it and have a low cost into program that builds up to the more pro level work.

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