Talk:Kokone/@comment-28951715-20171101152320/@comment-53539-20171104110507

They are usually warned a year in advance, so they would have been told either earlier this year or late last year. V2 ended in 2011, but Vocaloids were being worked upon in 2010 that would be released for V3.

The English studios have a habit of switching to the next engine version ASAP when the announcement is made. This is why they go dead in particular as they re-do voicebanks they do have in the newer version or begin planning new vocals for the new engine. Studios either rush out voicebanks who are late releasers (V3 Internet co) or re-do them (Crypton). For vocals for Chinese, if history repeats itself, the English and Japanese versions will be released months before their update will so we'll get a few possible releases from them.