Yes, but it's also telling that the business model that Tamiya follows is different to Dragon's.

Where one tried really hard to better the other and corner the market with cheap kits, loaded to the lid with "extras" etc, they were popular and to many Tamiya were yesterdays news, a company that no longer cut the mustard. But it seems they (Tamiya) would stick to their tried and tested ways and knew their core market and what appeals to it.

Whereas Dragon are now building their sales on rehashes of previous releases with less in the box, squeezing out releases from whatever they can cobble together from existing moulds, still with poor instructions, at greatly increased prices, to the point where Tamiya kits now look like bargain prices for their latest releases.