Talk:MEIKO/@comment-47.184.225.48-20180609204539/@comment-53539-20180628153129

Producers can only buy X amount of Vocaloids per their earnings, they can only produce X amount of songs. Miku is popular to the point I say just forget her existence when you judge other Vocaloids. CFM vocaloids in generally tend to be relied upon even when their rubbish releases, so they overall will steal sales from other Vocaloids.

Generally out of all the little piles of things you can say about Meiko... Most I'd say the reason hardest on her is just the "common vocal type" situation, as there are lots of Vocaloids who can do the things she does or better. Meiko has trouble standing out because there are now so many vocals who overlap her type or can do things she does or can do them better. ITs a long term problem that's been around for about 8 years now and Mirai is the most recent member of this voice type.

Common vocal types are not bad, and the more Vocals vocaloids adds the more you will because the human vocal cord is only capable of "X" amount of variations, its not a problem. Its just making them stand out. IF we compare Mirai and Meiko Straight, Mirai knows Straight out of the ring, but Meiko has extra vocals for XSY and English so Mirai couldn't beat her in everything. This tends to be what this group is like. Even then, the V4 record method means even if two Vocaloids are in the same group, in theory they don't behave or react the same as each other and Mirai isn't going to behave the same as Meiko. People tend to think this is a negative thing for a Vocaloid to "sound alike", but its not as it looks, especially since its now an officially declared problem among Vocaloids as of Vocaloid4.

Either way while vocaloids can struggle to sell units at times, I have no doubt Meiko sold units.