Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20171231161124/@comment-28951715-20180212204211

Ihavenoideawhatsoever wrote: Sorry, i just always have in mind the bigger picture, so this turned into a bad habit. Like, you know, sure, it's good to focus on the Chinese audience but why not, at least, try for the western, or even for the Japanese one, which is more important in Vocaloid's case. I just think those kind of things and turn crazy with ideas of how things could go. I understand that i'm probably making her fans, and other Chinese fans, mad but it's just a bad habbit, and i'm kind of proud to have it but that's probably just me i bet others hate it ^^; No worries, it really didn't come off that badly. You're entitled to your opinion, and I can understand why you feel the way you do! Three water-based characters so close together does seem a little much, so I get it.

I agree with you that global audiences are important! However, I think the Chinese community is diferent because China is a huge, untapped market. There's a reason why China's box office numbers are insane; there are at least three or four Chinese films that we've never heard of in the top grossing films of the year.

"The Mermaid" is a good example; it came out a couple years ago, made close to a billion dollars, but we never heard about it because nearly all the revenue was in China.

"Wolf Warrior 2", "Monster Hunt", "The Great Wall" (which did extremely well in China compared to bombing here because again, Chinese market), and "Kung Fu Yoga" are all very high grossing films we've also barely heard about because they don't need to worry about appealing to us.

I think that the Chinese community doesn't inherently go after the international audience because, like Chinese films, they don't need to. I'm sure that if they really wanted to, there would be all sorts of things they could do to reach out; selling their vocals on the Vocaloid Store, or elsewhere with global access, (or just making taobao easier to freaking use), etc.

While I feel like it would be amazing for them to try and be more globally accommodating, I also understand why they aren't. SHN and Wangcheng both know where their markets are, and I'm sure they've done their research. Even if/when they do decide to expand their outreach, I feel like at the end of the day there's still not going to be a ton of excitement from the other parts of the world.

After all, how many people besides Nebulous, me and a handful of others can you think of that really really like the Chinese vocals, and would/have buy them? Tbh, I don't know too many people who do aside from those who pop up on VO forums every now and then.

I don't have any friends irl who've heard of the Chinese vocals unless I've told them; neither do they know about UNI or SeeU, the Spanishloids, half the Engloids or Japanese V3/4s for that matter.

So the odds of finding people who would be really really willing to invest in Chinese vocals is small, outside of the massive market that is the Chinese community.

...Sorry for the length on this one; the Chinese consumer market is something I find incredibly fascinating. Especially movies, lolololol (btw I highly recommend watching "The Mermaid", it's hilarious).