To answer Billb3's question:

DS users could get involved with Dawn for several reasons:

• To have a "fixed-shape" figure that is custom-made to a feminine form in their library. Certain renders might require just that extra bit of detail or features lacking from Genesis and her morphs.

• To keep with new products from a variety of vendors and have widest choice available.

Those are practical reasons (applicable to Genesis 2 figures too). The rest are political/emotional. Let me give some of these:

• To support an alternative 'house" (Important if one is mad at where "mainstream" is leading).
• To share in excitement starting afresh, from a clean slate (do not underestimate the appeal of this one).

You have to decide yourself whether those are important enough to invest several thousands of dollars.

I think that Dawn is much more exciting for Poser users than for DS users. While DS had Genesis, Poser world was stuck with Generation 4 for a very long time. It wasn't bad really - many products of stunning quality appeared during that time - and there's always fun to have widest choice of morphs, clothing, poses, props, etc. - but equally obviously many Poser users were hungry for something truly fresh (and doubted DAZ will ever produce it, DSON notwithstanding).

Also enough time passed from the introduction of V4 to consider a new very heavy investment being reasonable.

Genesis users, however, are experiencing their bit of "XP moment" - many are resisting Genesis 2 and Dawn, because their investment is still very fresh, its full potential unrealized yet, its possibilities inexhausted. For them both G2 and Dawn just came too soon.

And that's entirely reasonable thinking too.

If you look at software market (which has much more experience with generation changes), you'll notice that "compatibility breaks" do not happen more than once in a decade or even two. Arguably the original Genesis had enough of a novelty and functionality to work as a Windows NT/OS X platform shift. But Genesis 2 or Dawn? I doubt it.

A lot depends on when you made your start in this little 3D world of ours. Those, who started with MilWoman or Vic 2 were not responsive to generation 3 lure and made fun of "trillions" of morph files in the runtime needed to use them. They switched to V4 readily though, while many of Gen 3 people couldn't understand how people could buy anything that "ugly". 

If you're among the one's who started with Genesis and now are feeling somewhat left out of all the excitement around Genesis 2 or Dawn - don't worry. Your moment will come with Genesis 3 (or Dawn 2). Then the guys who are currently overexcited about Dawn or Genesis 2 will rant about not seeing reason to splurge on another new figure and you will be able to offer them a free download to test it out. :laugh:

That's how it works, I guess...