As usual, the comparison with XM is flawed to the core. People compare what they end up paying for XM pieces with international ship and various markups vs what their statues actually cost.
The XM Punisher is 990SGD retail - which is 720$. It's a big 1/4 scale piece that comes with a full bike (with metal parts) and switchouts. And it's limited to 800 pieces.
Geralt retails at 770$, it's surely a big and detailed piece and the paint app is awesome, but only one third have the exclusive head and the edition size is 1500 (double than Punisher and nearly triple than many XM pieces).
I do feel that this time Prime1 could have given us more, I'd rather have seen at least a pair of switchout for the hands with different weapons or some effect of the Signs and such.
Also, there is the question mark of the 1:3 versions and their price, for which people might feel that the 1:3 version could have better value for the money - but we'll discover it only too late. This is something I don't have to worry about with XM.
With that said, I do have this statue on order, and it will cost me a tad more than 1000$. The fact that I'm swallowing doesn't mean I have to blindly accept the price point without question.