Talk:Utatane Piko/@comment-26116982-20150817024402/@comment-53539-20150917085544

From what I gather on Flower is that she was popular enough to warrant the update, but not enough to warrant additional VBs.

You can pretty much tell when a Vocaloid is updated how successful they were. Ah software examples this well, with miki only getting a bare-bones update and Yukari getting a additional 2 vbs for hers. Same went for internet co vocals in V3, Gumi got 6 versus Gackpo's 3 and Lily's 2 and though both are noted to be considered for English... Internet co isn't rushing them into production.

The only ones it might not work so well on, being the CFM vocaloids, but even then... There is some rankings amongst them with Miku's constant updating being noted and the extent of what she got.

So we can maintain at the end of the day, Flower was successful enough to WARRANT the update, just nothing else fancy. She already had the disadvantage of being released late V3, and vocals released late into the engine don't always sell so well as those released early.

I'd pin more on Tone Rion as an example, rather then flower, of unpopular, as she had a whole group planned... he neither have the rest of her group made nor was given any form of update after SE hit... And She has mostly been out of action for a lot of things.

Also, as a note, Rana has also been fairly successful as a project as she appealed to a lot of newbie producers who can't fork out for Vocaloid in 1 hit. They would not continue her magazine nor consider a V4 for her if this was not the case, nor fill the magazine with the content it has.

Without any form of sales, you're guess is as good as mine on how well the vocals have done. The only vocaloid I feel isn't as popular as they seem lies on Mayu. Being Exit tunes own product she is pretty much certain to be in their Albums alongside other vocaloids, Exit Tunes being among the most popular Vocaloid albums... Mean Mayu can piggyback on the popularity of Miku and co without having too be too popular herself.