Talk:Utatane Piko/@comment-69.146.150.165-20190224111555/@comment-53539-20190225130449

V4 era is over, so the V4 isn't happening.

There is always going to be Vocaloids left behind.

Good news; Yuu, Yohioloid, Fukase, Arsloid can all replace him and fill much of the roles is vocal can. If you want to count Len in here, there is him too. Piko's actually the LQ vocal of the lot discounting Len's Act1 and Act2 vocal, plus you have to bare in mind Len is really a woman pretending to be a male vocalist. So we have better vocals by now.

The other issue is, as I often say, its already too late. Piko was released over 8 years ago and a Vocaloids first year is their most important one. It is the year companies expect to sell the most units, after that the number slowly fades down since you only expect customers to buy the product once.

Piko had issues. MQ vocal. Released alongside VY2 who was HQ, plus Len Append who was also HQ and more popular. Released at the end of the v2 era, with V3 being known months in advance to be on its way. Sony being... Sony. Issues with the demo including it being limited to a 5 days trial. Lots of things held him back, even the fact he was male. Needless to say, if he got an update now, it truly would be strange because he basically didn't do well back in 2010/2011 and that matters more. And since V2 is now out of the picture and retired with no support offer for him if he goes wrong, you basically also have a long term problem of people not being able to get help going forward. Piko is out of the picture for good unless he has an update at this point and its far too late to save him.

There have basically been no other "Sony" Vocaloids either.