Talk:Just Dance 2018/@comment-25102147-20170610222720/@comment-1465604-20170612044914

For the same reason why Psy will likely the only representative for KPop for some time to come, Hatsune Miku will likely remain the only Vocaloid rep: The genre are too niche to include others. The fact we're getting either at all is already a bit of pandering from Ubisoft. At least with PSY it makes a bit of sense: He's commercial and mainstream. He's had 1 huge worldwide hit (2nd on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100!) and then some minor international success with the other songs included in the series.

Vocaloid is still very, very niche. Even among the J-Pop/Anime/J-culture crowd, Vocaloid is a niche. It's a niche within a niche. And international interest in it is very low, even among the target audience of the Just Dance series. If the kids choose a Vocaloid song, it's not because it's a Vocaloid song, it's because of the cute costumes and dance (which they could've tacked on any number of non-Vocaloid songs for basically the same results).

Outside of the Vocaloid fans, any Vocaloid but Hatsune Miku simply isn't recognizable and nobody outsideof the Vocaloid fans would go "Oh my God! Megurine Luka!" if they were to throw in "Luka Luka Fever". Besides, it's not like we're getting the official Vocaloid dances to go with the songs. I don't know how I would handle them bastardizing "Luka Luka Fever" (which I know through DanceEvolution, not through Vocaloid, of which I'm not much of a fan).

It's really quite astounding that last year we got 1 J-Pop representative (in-house production), 1 K-Pop representative and 1 Vocaloid representative. We're unlikely to see any more.