Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140129130719/@comment-3076833-20140130011520

It's worth noting that MAIKA is in fact on the English Vocaloid store. And if we're counting Western language banks towards Western Vocaloids we also have Megpoid English and the Nana bundle. There's also the fact that there is an English store in the first place for Western buyers of Vocaloid even if the majority of voicebanks there are Japanese.

Combine that with the fact that Western Vocaloids are still an on-going thing is enough to at least say that Yamaha aren't completely ignoring them. This is, again, them trying to focus more of their promotion towards the Japanese bunch (AKA the profit makers). Although that could be summed up by the fact they at the very least get mentioned in an "overseas" part of their main site, the only reason then that they can still be considered "brushed aside" is the fact it's not that well noticable.

Western Vocaloids as a whole are starting to get a fair amount of recognition and as soon as Yamaha sees that they'll start promoting them more. It's only a matter of waiting for more Western producers to pop up and get a fair chunk of regocnition, even if not to the heights of Japanese ones.