Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-137.147.23.232-20151103062538/@comment-53539-20151103094630

Not a chance!

The problem is that Miku has about 800-1500 uploads on Nico video a month versus Gumi's 300-500 uploads or Rin's 100-300. And their her closet rivals. Top it off Miku's just sold too well. Lat year Vocaloids sold overall 19.7% more and a lot of that was put down to Miku V3. Miku herself sold about 60,000+ copies in V2 over her lifetime... Which compared to a game which can sell over 1 million is nothing, but compared to other syns, is good because the averagesyn is only expected to sell 1,000 units.

Engloids are lucky if they sell well, discounting Avanna most don't even make it into Zero-G's top 10 products of the ones they prodduce... Yohioloid was confirmed not have done fantastic andyet he had a Japanee VB, which should have given him a advantage against Oliver... But it seems not to be a case as from what I've gathered Oliver did better. It seems to be based on SeeU being in the same problem, Japanese producers just don't buy into foreign Japanese vocals... Then again they have better already.

Lot of people want Miku to be replaced, I think its because everyone is sick of her. But the problem is this consensus isn't shared by Japanese fans and their still much into her. She is still selling lots of merchandise over time and even if her VB fails, at this stage CFM could just not produce a update for a engine version and she would still in theory hold onto her position as no.1 vocaloid. Top it off, so many Japanese producers wait on her releases they don't always rush to buy other vocaloids.

Instead of focusing on Miku, focus on Ruby, raise her profile, do fanfiction, fanart, whatever. Its a waste of time to focus on downing Miku for the moment.