Talk:VOCALOID4/@comment-26116982-20150430121749/@comment-11582536-20150430184633

Pretty sure I remember AHS saying the reason they're updating their vocals was because V2 would no longer be supported very soon and that they wanted people to still be able to use all of their VOCALOIDs without hassle (I don't have a source onhand, so don't quote me on this. Could also be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was mentioned in the same article that clarified that Yuki's growls would be provided by another VP).

So there's those four (Miki, Kiyoteru, Yuki, Iroha). Yukari goes without saying because she's their most popular. Not surprised she got updated and not surprised she was first. Zunko isn't even one year old; she's too new to be updated.

Internet Co. seems to like being on top of things. All of their V2s were updated to the V3 engine and they still had room to make a bunch of new VOCALOIDs. Naturally they'd want to update their most popular vocals to V4, though whether they'll want to update all of them again this round (Gachapoid was a special case last time and I find it hard to believe they'll do it again now) or just a select few remains up in the air.

Crypton is.... Crypton.

VY1 to me comes across as Yamaha's default go-to voice, so that could be it.

Flower... I have no idea why Flower is being updated, honestly. The closest thing I can think of would be #3 in Angel's list -- to renew interest. She's a VOCALOID who actually is a lot less popular than I originally thought; she was below Kiyoteru in the 2014 popularity list. And she's not even a year old yet either, like Zunko... So they could be trying to bring her popularity up by confirming her early.

Her confirmation came as a surprise to me, tbh.