Beatmania IIdx on ps3?

[fundando]

Does konami plan to bring this series to the ps3? I know the ps2 is still going strong but at some point you would think this would come to ps3. Anybody know something I don't?

[s e a n a]

If there is a shift (which is rather unlikely), then I hope they'll still have the same version released for the PS3 available for the PS2.
I would rather not have to upgrade from a PS2 to a PS3 just to play just one game series.

[word]

In before a shitstorm of these posts start emerging again.

[aroomwithaview]

hey cool its this thread again

and since you cant search on the word "ps3" itself i cant find anything more recent than about a year ago or longer

IIDX 14 GOLD CS should have a PS2 and a PS3 version.
What will happen once the PS3 comes?

lets review the basic facts quick and dirty

1- the iidx series sells like shit

granted theres very few videogames made today which dont sell like shit unless it has a nintendo or squarenix logo on the box but konami has budgeted iidx to where the sales it gets are acceptable

changing the platform would probably reduce those sales

2- the ps3 sells like shit

the ps3 is this generations gamecube if not worse in terms of how many people buy them

putting a niche series on a platform that nobody owns makes zero econmic sense which is the only sense konami cares about as with any other company

3- theres no need to change platforms

iidx in arcades uses standard taito x2 hardware and has nothing going on in game which the ps2 cant handle

beatmania iidx is doing the same thing now as it has since 1999 and putting the home versions on the ps3 would add no benefit because the newer hardware capabilities given over the ps2 would not be used and theres no way konami would make any hypothetical ps3 version do things better than a given ac version because theres no sales incentive to do so

im just some guy at a keyboard so its not like i really have any idea what konamis executives are thinking but i believe that theres no logical reason to put iidx on ps3 and im pretty sure they feel the same way

[coldman64]

I agree with you. This is definitively NOT the time to transition the series to the next generation.

Apart from the fact that it would enrage some of the hardcore fans of the series, It would probably increase their production cost and time.

By reusing the majority of the code from the previous IIDX games, they can just add the new artwork and music to make the newest game.

[zorahk]

People on this forum are weird.

This isn't even a topic to discuss.

They eventually changed from PS1 to PS2, and likewise they will eventually change from PS2 to something else.

Just because they haven't yet doesn't mean in 10 years they will still be making games on PS2 because "it's cheap"

[Paul]

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