Quote - With the current tech in poser you can make some advancments, but wether it is enough to push the market away from m4/v4 is going to be very tough....and getting vendor support would be even harder, simply because making top quality products is a huge investment in time and if the new figure fails to achieve its goals...then they ahev lost all that time.  I know I have been there and lost big when apollo came out....so I know I would be hesitant to try that again.

Apollo...I forgot about Apollo.  Good example of a good character, a good following, but maybe not marketed in the right places to grab attention and market share (he was alittle bit before I got started, but when I found him, I liked him!)  He was mainly word-of-mouth in forums and stuff, right? His own website?

Seems if he was dropped in RDNA, Renderosity and that "other store", at a very low price point (or free), with opportunity for vendors to make $$$ off of him, it would have had more success.  ...but again, not sure if that "other store" allows non-:m_shhh: human figures to be sold there?  Marketing is big...

Maybe he was considered competition to M4.

He was at a time when technologies had not diverged.

So now I think its:

1. Well-made, cross-platform, character
2. Marketing
3. Vendor support

(...cause if you hit #2, people buy, which then drives market to look for #3)

...thinking out loud...maybe that why SM is not going that new technology way, cause it is gving the character market away.  if they have another option (like WM) that is comparable, then they have a possibility of taking a large portion of the character market...?  never thought of it that way.