Talk:Utatane Piko (VOCALOID2)/@comment-31223349-20180805175555/@comment-53539-20180805210941

It costs money to maintain old technology and well... Every V2 vocal is at this point inferior to what came after them. There are several Vocaloids who can replace Piko and as I point, we lost more in the ENGLISH side with the loss of Prima, Tonio and Big Al, who are the 3 vocals whose typing has yet to be replaced. No offence but the Japanese side has replaced all but Piko so... Who the frag cares if you loose 1 Japanese vocal when the English side lost 8!!!!

Sony has their own voice synth now anyway, so I doubt they'll consider Vocaloid.

A Akumi says the western Vocaloid fandom doesn't have much say. Their not the main target market of Piko, that was Japan. Japan prefers Vocaloids that are female and Piko was really badly timed, being released next to both the Kagamine Appends and the end of the V2 era. The reality is we're more likely to buy Vocaloid songs then Vocaloids. And even then, the Vocaloids that are aimed at us got largely ignored (Spanish) and largely criticised (English), with the English vocals only managed to pull a miracle recovery out of V3 with Avanna. The reality is, we have our own Vocaloids.

Even if all else... I keep noting that isn't much special about Piko, he is a MQ vocaloid at best. All the HQ Vocaloids are known so everyone else is either LQ or MQ, normally early V2's are LQ and late MQ, the HQ are ; Luka who is the worst of the best, Iroha, the Appends and the VYs, its a shallow list. His vocal had issues and well... Sony made it hard for everyone to use him both in demo form and were a bit of a problem after release at times. So everything was stacked up against him from the start.

In reality, Piko's loss is neither that big of a deal and we've lost worst from V1 and V2, and every generation will leave behind voicebanks. Eventually, V3 may be retired likewise, considering how big the V3 era was thats a lot of lost vocals right there when it happens. I don't get why there is such a fuss because quite frankly your 8 years too late to cry about the situation. The most important time of a Vocaloids life is their first year as most sales come in that, that means Piko was mostly a lost cause by 2012 and its too late to save him.