However, in terms of sales of Hatsune Miku, Crypton Future Media would offer up preferential sales for users of MEIKO and KAITO if they were registered by the 9th of August, 2007. Hatsune Miku would be successors to the pair. When Hatsune Miku was on pre-order it was noted MEIKO and KAITO had no prospect of receiving updates and it was preferred to carry on with new releases.
It was also a common expectation that females would sell better than males, partly due to MEIKO's success. MEIKO's success, followed by the success of Hatsune Miku, led Crypton to be focused on female vocals for their VOCALOID2 era voicebanks.
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Another thing to consider is that for a commercial product to be successful, a software synthesizer had to sell only 1,000 units. This was also far better than her counterpart Kaito, who had sold only 500 units. MEIKO sold 3,000+ units in her first year according to DTM magazine, which was out of the ordinary for a software synthesizer at the time. It was a duet song of "Ano Subarashii Ai wo Mou Ichido (That Wonderful Love Once More)," being covered by a prototype version of MEIKO and KAITO before their release. On July 24, 2003, a CD album named "HISTORY OF LOGIC SYSTEM," (which included a song using Japanese VOCALOIDs commercially for the first time), was released. MEIKO and KAITO were originally developed alongside LEON and LOLA and intended for release for the software " Project Daisy", with MEIKO having the name of "HANAKO" for a long time. This was much in as the later VY1 and VY2 vocals were left to Bplats, Inc. MEIKO and KAITO were originally developed by YAMAHA, with Crypton Future Media handling her commercial release.