Board Thread:Japanese VOCALOID discussion/@comment-25396094-20170320220826/@comment-7882956-20170321170753

I'm personally more on the side where I hope (even if it is unlikely) VOCALOIDs with languages other than Japanese would be updated. Literally the only other language doing that is Chinese since Tianyi V4 is in the works. Even though I love the Chinese VOCALOIDs so much and even though I believe Tianyi (and the other Chinese V3s) deserve updates, I just find it disappointing that the other languages aren't likely to be updated. Those VOCALOIDs could totally use the new perks and improved qualities that the V4s have.

And unfortunately part of the reason they're not being updated is because they didn't sell well, they're not popular enough, or it's simply too expensive to update a VOCALOID. There also may be fears that if they bothered to update a VOCALOID, they risk it being unpopular twice and wonder if it was even worth it in the first place. :/ If I recall correctly, VoctroLabs is even out of the VOCALOID loop. Even if Maika was their most popular VOCALOID, she, Bruno, and Clara still aren't doing well for Spanish VOCALOIDs overall (from what I've heard, I could be wrong here).