Talk:Haruno Sora/@comment-4946341-20181005105151/@comment-53539-20181012101516

Not many of the post V2 Vocaloids have done well, the thing is since 2014 vocal synths have lost popularity in Japan. This reflects even on Vocaloid further more the game changed when CeVIO came in, while offering overall less impressive results in terms of realism and engine impact, it had vocals for singing and talking. I don't think even LUMi has done all that well either. Plus there are lots of other problems too such as V3 overloading the market with female Japanese vocals of the same tone (which was addressed in V4) and similar vocals, and basically the Vocaloid craze being over. V4 also not being much different to V3 didn't help in terms of performance. V5 was released but is the first version of the engine to get loss of faith due to performance issues either on, some producers started to look at Synth V and CeVIO over Vocaloid. Some issues were fixed, but there are things like missing XSY that have put people off switching to V5.

To top it off you basically no longer have to buy additional voices as Amy and co come with the software... The problem with supplying vocals included in V5 is you will get producers who will stop at Amy and co and buy no further Vocaloids.

Unfortunately we're at a period of time wherein the hope of newer Vocaloids ever repeating the days of V2 are over. Luckily a vocaloid only has to meet expectations to be successful, so we should just pray every new Vocaloid meets the mark.