Talk:VOCALOID Piracy/@comment-4527446-20120805142546/@comment-53539-20120807095326

Only hints and statements, CFM often shows us the figures I think for bragging rights since their most successful.


 * We know synthisers need to ship 1,000 units.
 * We know Kaito shipped only 500 originally.
 * We know that Leon and Lola failed to sell in America but met all other expectations where they were sold
 * Meiko sold 3,000 units
 * Miku sold over 60,000
 * Zero-G's Prima was in their top ten sales rankings of 2011 (9th place) last year
 * Sonika was 13th in that same rankings (the top 50 rankings are the products that sold well that year so Prima and Sonika sold well, as we know form this).

In terms of anyone else, we know PowerFX can only afford to make one voicebank at a time and need to raise money before making their next. So the sales of one make up the next one. They also get more money from Soundation studio, their own brand product, then from Vocaloid. At the end of the Voclaoid 2 era, PowerFX were the smallest studio, but I've said that once already. By the looks of it, Vocanext are now the smallest (the ones working on Lui and Ring). PowerFX would love to redo Sweet Ann if they can raise the money, this much they confirmed and its all thats holding her remake back. Right now, their doing normal releases for Voclaoid until then. :-/

Gumi and Gakupo are also on par with Crypton Future Media Voclaoids, therefore, we don't have sales but we do have a estimated popularity. We also see merchandise for them now which is another sign their doing well. The same goes for Lily, but there are other things (Anim.o.v.e merchandise doubles as Lily merchandise at times and vice versa).

Thus, this is pretty much all I can tell you. :-/