Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140129130719/@comment-24.176.74.198-20140130183920

Angel Emfrbl wrote: I think the absence from the Vocaloid store may be something much simpler then we expect.

Knowing the way things go, Yamaha likely takes a small% out of the sales that occur via the store. So having the sales via your own website rather then someone else means that you get 100% of the sale back to you, rather loosing 4-30% (depending on site) to the 3rd part website. :-/

But I can't speak on behalf of the two english studios, so who knows.

It was several months before overseas vocals got added via the overseas section of the site, so Yamaha is not fully invested in this. I do, judging by the V1 era stuff, think in the past they expected the English version to succeed over the Japanese version since the amount of effort that went into it instead of the Japanese side... But once Miku got released there was no going back.

Neverless, there are more English vocals in the V3 era then the V2 era, so I don't think this is a complete ignorance of a particular market. CFM I think are filling their vocaloids in the market to get ground because stubborn fans here in the west won't buy into anything unless its CFM. There are plenty of fans who believe CFM made Vocaloid, and don't know Yamaha is the owner of Vocaloid, or don't acknowledge most fot eh Vocaloids. Looking at the lineup page at vocaloid.com. I can see this. On the V1 page the English seem to get more attention when it came to their description, but on V2 and V3 lineup page, all Western Vocaloids are exiled to a link under the tab (with no mention of them on the main lineup page). That's the kind of mess which leads me to believe that western companies are largely on their own, and I wouldn't be surprised if they weren't informed about Vocaloid NEO.

In my opinion, I kinda want to get a male Vocaloid from them, but I wouldn't mind if they put that aside for a while to make a NEO version of AVANNA. Even if it isn't a stand alone editor, it would still be better then nothing.