As long as any given 3d marketplace proprietor remains focused on selling content and are not giving much if any focus to developing and maintaining software, then it would seem foolish of them to preclude anything that narrows their market user base?

By the same token, it seems perhaps naive of vendors to think that regurgitating infinite variations on a theme of the same sort of V4 stuff can last forever?

Anyway just really chipping in to agree that what's needed around any new figures, if they're to take off... is quite simply, I reckon, hype hype and more hype... then some hardcore marketing... then some more hype... etc.

If the figure's user friendly from the point of view of folk making content for it then that's going to help I guess...

...but I suspect that a good proportion of content makers will still fall over themselves to jump on supporting a new figure, even if it has inherent problems... e.g. with compatability or whatever... if there's enough hype, hype, marketing and hype, built up around it?

Cheers ;-)