Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140129130719/@comment-3076833-20140130195613

@Blue : One can not say whether it will be a hit or miss bringing it to the West. All I can really say is that there is 1. a much bigger Mac-base in the West and 2. most music software are on make and hence more people using Macs (producers in other words) to make music with. With that in mind it'd be safe to say it wouldn't be a completely pointless/baseless investment, the only problem here is, as we can see, Yamaha's investment in the Western market.

As for the sales of the Western-English Vocaloids they sell well enough for the companies to at least continue investing in the Vocaloid Project, heck it's beleived that Lola, Leon and Miriam sold better than (V1) Kaito initially before the Miku-splosion. Although ultimately the one thing the Western English base needs now is essentially a "Miku" product in which the product sky rockets in sales, even if it's far from the same height as Miku. In other words they stand up on their own but have yet to explode in popularity/profit.

@Angel : Best we can hope is that due to the influx of Japanese->English banks Yamaha will consider expanding their image to more than just "So Japanese Desu".