Originally Posted By: Dnj
Yamaha will sell hundreds of thousands T5 units no matter what. Same goes for T6 when it comes out in a couple of years.
Personally I'm looking forward to the next S series unit.


Quite the dreamer if you believe Yamaha will sell hundreds of thousands of Tyros 5's. The DX7 never sold that many units and it was Yamaha's most successful keyboard instrument ever and cost less than half what a T5 does. Even the Korg M1, the largest selling keyboard/ workstation ever, sold roughly 250,000 units. Again it cost less than half that of a T5.

The T5 at a retail of over $5 grand automatically limits it sales possibility to a low number of customers. The fact it's an arranger keyboard then takes that number and cuts it in third at best and that's being generous. High dollar instruments be it workstation, arranger, or otherwise simply don't sell well and have a finite market place.