Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-76.92.67.202-20140215200755/@comment-86.176.104.133-20140216123333

I believe th absence of the English vocaloids has more to do with profit for PowerFX and Zero-g's sake. If Yamaha's sore works simmliar to ther places, then they take a % of profit from each sae, so for Zeo-G andPowerFX toget he best deal of profit, they'd have to sell their own vocaloids. How true this is;  Dunno. This is my conclusion at least.

It makes sits like the wikia important though because we act also as a fan-baed marketing for every Vocaloid.

It costs more money for a English ocal o be made abroad then in Japan as it counts as export properities (someone tried to argue against this, but th Zero-G and PowerFX has said the same thing). And right now, Japanese Vocaloids are really being pushedto make profitable. I tink Yamaha wants this to work with English vocaoids, but isfocusing on stengthening Japanese vocaloids first before they fully omit abroad.

Don't forget, Yamaha focused on th V1 era particularly strongly on English vocals, but neiher Japanese nor Ensh had much difference between them. English ad 3 "overall" successful vocals and Japan ad one highly succssful andone omplete failure. Not even Crypton Future Media say Miku's popuarity coming. Maintaining tha popularity is provig har, while trying o promte and sell other Vocaloids is proving hard to. I think thisgeneration, V3, is more about making the Vocaloid engine popular all roud so that Yamaha can get a more steady profit and get more studios on board. Its not all successful, since as soon as CFM entered the scene we went back to how things were in the V2 era, but youcan see whamaha is trying to do. Hell, its even got several vocaloid now under its own brand, but has licsed their production out to 3rd party studios still.

They are also making things like apps and other smaller versions of the engine. But I don't think Yamaha is overall really themseves to push everything overseas.

I think when the dust settles things will be better. Form now, Vocaloid is in its teen years and its having gowing pains.

Also I apologise:, I'm aving bosr problems and for a moment I' given up on ox and gone back to IE to write this. I cant seem to log on. the same ssue impacting my Firefox is impct IE, only IE is working is ndling t better. Bth browsers are heavilylgging on certain sites, but IE is merely skipping a lette every so often Firfox is hanging for seveal minutes in contrast. - Angel Emfrbl :-/