Board Thread:Poll Archive/@comment-30602727-20150514233129/@comment-53539-20150524214441

Its likely due to the situation with miki's release... Professional vocalists cost money and when a product doesn't sell particularly well there is less incline to add more to it. In addition... You have to book the time with the singer. See Internet co., Ltd and Lily/Gackpo English.

Also don't forget their past as vocaloids... Yukari is their best success story, Iroha was their next most successful and their most successful V2. At one stage, her, Yuki and Kiyoteru were the 3 most unpopular Vocaloids in the Japanese V2 range, I think Piko and Ryuto later off-set this but it things have never been easy for the trio. All 3 had difficulties upon release that made them bad for beginners, at a time when Luka was the best quailty Vocaloid the Japanese had, the Kagamine's the best bargin and Miku was super popular plus really easy to use. A vocaloid with any fault wasn't going to compete easy and the Big 8 already had the fans hooked on them. Its a miracle a few V3's got anywhere to be honest, for a while prior to this it looked like there was never going to be another Big name vocaloid outside of the 8.

The risk is higher to release a product, so the studio is likely to be more cautious. Internet co has this same situation, aside from Gumi they haven't invested a lot in their other vocaloids, but the Megpoid product was their most successful vocal.... Its practically the only non-CFM vocaloid thats a contender to take on Miku and they can't afford to loose that position so have to keep churning out vocals for her.

In all respects... One has to be more thankful for an update then the update, given that the retirement of Windows is pretty much tied to the dying of the V2 era vocals. Right now the V2's are pretty much on borrowed time and its unknown how much longer we'll have them around, considering it was a windows update that finally sealed the V1's era indefinitely.