Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20180322113157/@comment-24636659-20180415182721

Angel Emfrbl wrote: Pinkgirl234 wrote: Hopefully when VOCALOID5 is released, they won't retire VOCALOID3. Unfortunately it costs money to support older software. Most companies only hold onto software for so long. Eventually everything has to be retired. I remember Sony's response to the PS3 being able to support PS and PS2 games was more or less "erm..." when it was brought up. It because the PS2 supported the PS disks it ws a natural reaction that everyone thought the PS3 would do the same once again.

In shorten, sooner or later everything has to have a line drawn under it for finical reasons.

Plus in addition, companies also want to remove you from relying on old products so you can buy newer ones. So there is a little bit of greed in there. VOCALOID3 itself is probably not going to be supported anymore, but they might preserve the voicebanks- if only to prevent losing the Spanish vocals (and possibly most of the English/Korean).