Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-30602727-20150517053141/@comment-5051846-20150520163441

Arcadelily wrote: Purpled wrote: I think we should. I know a poll is in the works, so maybe we could somehow link to it. I know the polls here get a lot of traffic. From what I've heard, we're having a hard time deciding. It's what the community wants vs what sells well.

People want a male VOCALOID, but do they sell well? No. The only male VOCALOIDs I've known to sell well were KAITO V3 and Yohioloid. Not entirely on topic, but here is how male Vocaloids have done: Roughly speaking, Oliver, Gackpo and Len (if you can count him, he does get a lot of usage and isn't particulally overshadowed by Rin) had excellent sales, all the JPN banks in the top 10 most used Vocaloids on NND. Oliver is currently the most popular/one of the most popular Engloids, which is impressive for such a niche choir voice. ZOLA Project and VY2 had quite good sales, VY2 sitting just above VY1 in terms of usage. Kiyoteru did meh, sitting above vFlower and below CUL in the NND rankings. Ryuto and Piko bombed, sitting amongst AnoKano and Tone Rion as unpopular Vocaloids.

Moral of the story? Male Vocaloids can sell great, if done right; but for the West, a female is probably more in demand at this moment in time.