I decided to take another look at the level of figure support at the Renderosity Marketplace and below are the numbers of items available for each figure.

 

3600    Victoria 3

1140    Aiko

1020    Victoria

720      Michael 3

690      Stephanie 3

480      Michael

291      David

284      Laura

180      Miki

135      The Girl

121      Hiro

95        Apollo Maximus

94        Animedoll

90        Koshini 1 & 2

87        Freak

72        Terai Yuki

48        Rosy Cheeks Lina

32        Laroo

13        HER

 

Not surprisingly, Victoria 3 remains the top supported figure. I thought Aiko had grabbed second place based on the available freebies for the character and that is indeed the case.

 

Miki, Apollo Maximus, Animedoll, and Koshini are the best selling nonDAZ figures. I'm more impressed with the support for Miki and Apollo because they are newer figures and compete more with Victoria 3 whereas the other figures are toon characters. With Miki having twice the support of Apollo, it's a sign of how female figures sell better than male. Looking at the DAZ figures, V3 has five times the support of M3, V & S3 sell more than twice as many products as M & D3 respectively, and Aiko outsells Hiro by almost ten to one. If nothing else, those differences show that a female version of Apollo would have 2-10 times the support of Apollo.

 

I was also surprised at the relatively low level of support for The Girl compared to Aiko. The Girl had a lot more fanfare when that figure was released. The original Aiko had almost zero support. I'm not sure why Aiko3 has vastly outstripped all other anime/toon female figures.

 

By looking only at the Renderosity Marketplace, these figures aren't wholly representative of the entire Poser market. Since RMP doesn't have any affiliated figures, it's numbers aren't as skewed as other stores might be (such as Koshini's support at RDNA, Koshini's current home). I did take a quick look at RDNA and the few numbers I looked at were comparable. If anybody would like to add up numbers at other stores, it will give an even better representation of how much support the various figures have.

Another factor that boosts DAZ support numbers is that a number of unimesh morphs and textures support multiple figures. That means derivative figures have larger numbers than solely supported figures. David shares Michael 3 morphs and textures, so M3 products are duplicated in David products. A figure, like Apollo, doesn't get that double count to the same degree.

My visual indexes of Poser content are at http://www.sharecg.com/pf/rgagnon