Talk:Luo Tianyi/@comment-153.107.193.205-20180910001106/@comment-53539-20180910185202

Its fairly hard especially now as since 2014 the vocal synth craze is essentially over and now the Vocaloid fandom consists of 50% the strength it was in 2010. As I said elsewhere, UTAU took the biggest hit but al synths now get 40%-60% of what they got in the past. The craze is over and while Vocaloid is still seeing increases of sales, the sales are levelling off.

This is why I said Vocaloid5 couldn't afford to come out next year and had to stick with the predictable release of every 4 years and be out this year. IT couldn't afford to go 5 years without an update. The updates create new revitalisation in Vocaloid and extends its life another 4 years. Unfortunately we've got problems with V5 that have seen producers, even loyal ones, consider walking.

At this stage its now harder to introduce a new language though its going to have to happen sooner or later. After Chinese Miku Miku should, if hints dropped by CFM are correct, step into Spanish then Korean. At this point They'll have the entire market to themselves with Miku in every language which means Miku cannot expand. A new language would have to be introduced then for Miku to expand or CFM's limited and can go no further. Yamaha supposedly has reeled in control of its software and approaching them to make a vocaloid is now hard and you either have to go with an existing company or alternative software. That means new versions will have to be developed by Yamaha and then Yamaha will likely ask a 3rd party representative to go out there and find a studio to do that language. This likely has already occurred as we speak and no results been made. Remember only 1 English studio originally responded to CFM's enquiries in V1, Zero-G. Zero-G brought PowerFX into the mix. PowerFX are now gone.