Pumeco

I think you missed the point Malemedia was making about his teen figure being part of an ecosystem.

A new character can be launched without wardrobe or morphs. It has access to all those already in the ecosystem.
No need to get other vendors to commit time and effort, gambling on its success.

From other vendors point of view, they may have lost some sales from selling to multiple figures.
...but they get new customers from the users who work with extreme stuff like toons, kids or werewolves (or even males!!!).
With little or no extra work from the vendor as the ecosystem takes care of the details.

There are more benefits than drawbacks to Poser having an ecosystem of its own. (based on Roxie2 maybe?)

regards
prixat