Half the problem as I see it with the poor initial reception of Genesis is the lack of content creation tools for Genesis.

Until Poser Pro 2012 or DS4Pro come out, making content for Genesis is not that feasible for the rest of us not blessed enough to have access to these tools in Beta. And that's a LOT of peeps out there. The BASE ability is there in modelling tools etc, but that's the relatively simple part of making content. Rigging, falloff zones, joint editing, JCM's etc are the more complex tasks.

Once the tools are there, will interest in Genesis pick up? I suspect so. It bends far better than V4/M4 do.

Even converting the existing falloff zones in PP2012 won't particularly improve the bending of the figure unless you significantly tweak that weight map, whereas Genesis is ALREADY tweaked.

And let's face it, most users want instant gratification and quick-to-use tools. They're not likely to go tweak their own V4.