Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-25147000-20141019023013/@comment-30602727-20141112052723

"VOCALOID is a product and business. Crypton WILL market Miku as much as they want. She's the one who rakes in their money and they use that to update the other Crypton VOCALOIDs. They have even considered making falsetto and other language banks for her, and hell, even another English bank that's probably more improved than the first one. She's basically their cash cow and they're trying to squeeze out all they can out of her.

And other companies have tried hard to market their VOCALOIDs. And look, they never got anywhere near Miku level. Take SeeU for instance. She got concerts, performed with her voice provider, and a bunch of other things, but didn't do well. There's simply no point trying to compete with Crypton. They're just too popular and if anyone really wants Miku to stop being marketed so heavily, then the only way it would happen is if Crypton somehow screws themselves over and people lose interest. That probably won't happen for a while, but people are starting to notice that they have only focused on updating their VOCALOIDs and not making new ones. Quite a few remember that CV04 and Project If... were once a thing and now they're in the closet to collect dust. Perhaps if they keep updating and updating their VOCALOIDs, people would get bored, and quite a few already have. Don't get me wrong, I wanted KAITO, MEIKO and Luka to get V3'd badly, but if this becomes a pattern of updates and no new vocals, things might not go well, even if they're all very popular. Say it as you will about "no good reason to over market her". I agree with you, but this is how business is. VOCALOID wasn't meant to be targeted to the general public in the first place, they were originally intended for professional producer use. When a company sees that their product is doing really well, they're going to keep marketing it and spoil the product like a child. This is why GUMI of Internet Co has more voicebanks than the others and even has English." There.