Is it really a problem of the male figures not looking good enough though?

I mean yes, we've discussed that they're a bit lacking in some departments, but not everyone renders nudes anyway and there are lots of morphs to change the look of the figure if you don't like it. I personally can't stand the default M4, but he can be made much better with some work. I agree none of the current males are ideal and I'm always hoping for something better. But then I see a lot on the forum about how none of the female figures are ideal either and people want something better and are all over anything new that appears.

I wonder if Blackhearted had done a new version for M3/M4 it would have made the male figures more popular? Actually I think probably not. I don't think his Irina made S3 vastly popular and although Anastasia and Tyler were huge improvements on the originals you still don't see much of them. V3/V4 were hugely popular anyway, GND was just a bonus.

Maybe it's just to do with the demographic* of Poser users? Maybe the majority are people who are just less interested in or less comfortable with rendering males?

(* I think that's the word I want, I guess you get what I mean anyway!)