It's a very surprising move... for now I don't see a problem.. but I could see MAX focusing on the gaming industry and cutting the overhead in the app. I can see Maya staying on as a name and having some MAX components installed to make it even better....
No matter what, Autodesk has pretty much cornered the market.... Although LightWave is getting a lot of press. I love the work done with it on the new TV show "Surface" Lightwave is progressing very well.
And then there's Soft Image.. another competitor.
But the big ones, Max and Maya have combined and now that's pretty huge huge competition for the others.
