Any new figure is going to struggle for a while in this market until content for it builds up, which makes it all the more important for figure artists to make that figure as top notch as it can possibly be, and design it in such a way that corrections and modifications can be done to it as needed without having to rework all the content that comes along between initial release and said modifications, if any, are necessary.

The biggest hurdle that anyone is going to face is the simple fact that it takes more effort to build content in Poser than it does in DS. This isn't an opinion, it's simply fact. DS is nearly drag-n-drop now, while Poser still requires more tinkering. Any content artist that has built content for both programs can see that. Hopefully that will change or at least level out a bit more with the next version of Poser, but since none of us know when that next version is going to show up, it's irrelevant at this point.