It seems to have plateaued and increasing more slowly. Combining data from Steam and Statcounter reveals this:

  • will@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Believe it or not that initial wave of consolidation brought prices down. A license of SGI Power Animator cost over $30k in the 90s. softImage was not far behind. 3ds Max basically took the fight out of them, at which point Autodesk started going on a buying spree.