Talk:VOCALOID4/@comment-70.95.143.57-20160712005236/@comment-53539-20160712104442


 * V1 first developed 2000
 * V1 released 2004
 * V2 released 2007
 * V3 released 2011
 * V4 released 2014

V4 came at us a little sooner then usual, Kenmochi Hideki was retiring pushing out before his birthday and retirement. It should been released in 2015. This is the only reason V4 came at us so soon. In theory we have another approx. 2 years of V4 before V5 comes out. The next version should be a more major update since Katsumi Ishikawa is very keen to leave an impact on the franchise. Even if he releases it early, we still would have about a year of V4 before V5.

V4s releases currently do not out number V3s and it had 69 released vocals between the packages. V4 is at 53... I imagine by this time net year that number will be higher then V3. There have been 22 packages. In v3 that was 42, not including SE or NEO release. The XSY feature has slowed things down as studios spend more time on 1 package then they used to.

We've had 9 English vocals... Which is the same as V3... with at least 5 more to come. (Megpoid update, Miku English, Nana update, Zero-G rock vocalist, whatever PowerFX does next). So this version will see even more English vocals then the previous one. Its a shame, though, this will not be the same for the other new languages.... Except Chinese may see more releases.