User blog comment:OtterJiang/So, Uh.. VOCALOID 4?/@comment-3076833-20141222040520

"Surely, I'm not the only one who feels like VOCALOID4 just happened."

Surely you have not been here long enough to know that sudden releases are not all that uncommon. I also doubt they wanted to rush it just that it so happened to come out after it was leaked (Especially since there's been no rush to patch major bugs in it).

As for Vocanese they initially said it's V3 but no word has come from them since so it's safe to say, I think, there's a chance they're considering the swap, but we can't be too sure of that either.

And I also doubt this will effect sales given this is the software and to run all the new V4 voices you'd have to buy the engine. Heck i'm 100% certian that there's a chunkfull who have already bought it for V4 Luka coming up.

Miku V4 before the Kagamines? Plausable. But at the same token I also beleive they'll be trying to get the Kagamines out asap. At the same time though they're going to need their funding from somewhere.