Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25957383-20160511140149/@comment-53539-20160512073505

Its not.... If anything "Forumlas for success" actually speed things up and this case it would only apply to the design. It would have 0 effect on the library.

Okay to solve this problem, you have 3 little letters that will explain everything; XSY. Lets take a look at Ah software. They've actually produced the most vocals in this era then previous ones all together. As ell as re-releasing all vocal in a newer engine, they've added new vocal for Yukari, Kiyoteru and Iroha, thats 4 new vocals we never had before. not only that, but some were overhauled for improvements. I'm sure miki and Yuki would have had new vocals too if it was possible. nd even then, Ah software are currently aiding with Macne Nana Plus and have 2 VOICEROID vocals which jut got funding for raised (though the event for the raiser of the second end on the 18th). And Ah software are looking at English versions of their characters; which take a year to a year and a half to produce at times.

The Japanese companies are producing extra vocals, even internet co, which slows things down. To be fair the difference between V3 and V4 are minor, and are summed up with; GWL and XSY. The engine has tweaks and all that, but the basics are the same for the vocals, in fact Interent co ltd aside vocals are almost identical in build. A few tweaks to English vocals to improve them occurred, but the standard Japanese build is identical. Proof of the pudding is that Gackpoid V3 and V4 are practically the same thing 3 vocals and Rana V3 and V4 are the same, except Rana V4 has GWL.

So why are there less vocaloids coming along? Well... To be fair a lot of the issue actually lies in how the engine was launched. it was released without warning or flashing lights, so vocals were ready when they were instead of ready for launch. This was due to the project leader (whose name I can't spell) retired and he wanted the new version out before his net birthday in Jan 2016. In fact, VY1v4 was the only launch title Vocal, and she was followed by Cyber Diva for english. some studios like PowerFX basically re-did their V3 late engine vocals see Ruby.

To top it off, Yamaha had a lot of "Yamaha" vocals in early V3, which is not so many in V4. These were released quickly on session within few months, but by Jan... We had only really IA coming along who was new. So much of the buzz was gone by Jan and to be honest... By the end of V3 were had only half a dozen new vocals to look forward to.

So between XSY slowing things down, overall less "Yamaha" vocals and sudden release of the V4 engine, things are sluggish. Mostly the big difference this generation has been to the Vocaloid net service, which has just jumped into English, and effort has been put into making the Mobile VOCALOID Editor a viable option compared to iVocaloid and VocaloWitter.

In this case, Miiu has 0 to do with things.

Take note, the issue with V3 was that there was o any vocals released that they bit into each others sales. Too much of a good thing is bad, if you have a produce who can afford 1 new vocal at a time and he or she is presented with 5 new ones at once, think what is going to happen here. 4 vocal, or all 5 if the producer decides to wait longer for a better product, will loose out. Over saturation of a market can be just as bad as not enough on the market. See the raise and fall of the franchise "Guitar Heroes" and "Rock Band", both of which between them killed their own market by producing too much too soon. Guitar Heroes especially was guilty of its own demise as it was producing products far too often. Consumers aren't made of money.