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I believe that Daz has been a little behind in the developing digital art scene. They bought some companies that made digital avatars which didn't have a market. They then invested in NFT that basically didn't have a market. They didn't take early advantage of Blender use. They couldn't figure out a way to utilize 3d printing. Now they are falling even more behind because of AI. I had mentioned before I think they will release a Daz Studio 4.9X. It will be a couple of small fixes to wrap up it's development and then a quick announcement they will move to Unity. They will make some janky plugins to make things sorta work with their old products, but will focus on a DAZ People 10 (or some catchy name) that will work with Unity and maximize their profits, and not "waste" money on building a new FREE engine. They (for a while) will maintin their store and probably start selling Unity assets, photoshop plugin, silly AI plugins, and slowly lose artists who have decided to moved over to Renderosity, the Unity Store or some other software.
Thanks for everyone's insight. It sounds like Gen8.X is the last generation before Daz has to make a decision about Daz Studio. Given their track record with Hexagon and Carrara I am not hopeful. I wonder if Daz would try to license or co-op with Unity and create some weird Unity/Daz hybrid to eventually get out of the software business. Developing software is expensive and I just don't see them spending a ton of money on something new. Additionally, all the bridges that are made need to updated and if people have problems with them, they will just eventually buy content somewhere else.
I'd like to hear other's thoughts.
