The main difference between the 2 companies being.

Poser is a posing and rendering software, and is above all an application.

The Poser team seems to work more on building a good software, and the latest versions are a beauty, putting somewhat less importance on content.
So here we have a very capable software.

Daz was/is a content company, that made a new model, and build their new version of their software around the new model.
So here we have a very capable model/figure.

2 completely different strategies.

How they will travel in time? Only the future can tell.

Daz will not stop V4.
Most buyers are way over their financial point of no return for V4.

Be it in Poser or in DS4, any new figure will have to bring something "radically new" to turn the support market around.

 

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