Talk:Standard Vocals (VOCALOID5)/@comment-77.14.114.40-20180814053211/@comment-53539-20180815095030

@Anon 77.11, We just need to work out how much jointly those 4 would cost.

The standard release fo V5 is $231 and the full premium is more or less $360 with all 4 of the VYs as extra. Since the engines and 4 vocals are included to find the price of adding these 4 we just take $231 from $360. This leaves us with the price of 4 VY voicebanks at $129.

V4 is also sold at $95, so we can use that as a comparison price.

So the engine is about $95 and the vocals are about $129. The selling price of V5 should then be $224. So yeah, its about right. You generally give a little on top for V5 being new technology so the extra $7 is fine and would mostly cover fluff expenses, plus any room for error in the maths you have to make here.

As a note about the VYs, bare in mind Yamaha wants about $90 for each sold separately, so $129 is a fair deal. And if these 4 were sold separately they'd likely be treat them the same. So the cost is about $356 if your buying them as separate releases. I think the $129 for 4 vocals is a fair deal, especially since there is 4 Vocaloids and they cover 2 languages. I mean technically, 2 of both sets of the 4 vocals Yamaha is offering are being included for next to nothing since just buying VY1 and VY2 would set you back $178, to get Diva and Songman included for nothing and their Japanese brethren at a cheaper price is good.