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[[2002 (year)|2002]] saw the end of beatmania, and the hibernation of the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series for three more years in Japan. For the second year in a row, KONAMI introduced no new BEMANI series. In fact, in the entirety of 2003, only ''six'' arcade titles came out: two GUITARFREAKS / drummania titles, one new beatmania IIDX game, and a new pop'n music arcade title. And with the exceptions of [[ | [[2002 (year)|2002]] saw the end of beatmania, and the hibernation of the arcade DanceDanceRevolution series for three more years in Japan. For the second year in a row, KONAMI introduced no new BEMANI series. In fact, in the entirety of 2003, only ''six'' arcade titles came out: two GUITARFREAKS / drummania titles, one new beatmania IIDX game, and a new pop'n music arcade title. And with the exceptions of [[CS pnm Best Hits|pop'n music Best Hits!]], [[PnM_CS_8|pop'n music 8 CS]], and [[CS KBM Yamaha Edition|KEYBOARDMANIA Yamaha Edition]], ''all'' CS BEMANI titles in 2003 were exclusively DanceDanceRevolution related. | ||
beatmania IIDX finally got an upgrade to PC hardware with [[AC 9th style|beatmania IIDX 9th style]], resulting in higher resolution graphics, no more blanked out videos during gameplay, and a '''lot''' of new songs and revivals: 60 new songs and 28 revivals. Unfortunately, it came with a price; the PC hardware was not very reliable. Many machines crashed when attempting to run ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song [[quasar]], and [[General Relativity]] had a glitch when it would used the timing windows of the previous song, resulting in no timing windows at all and causing the player to fail. Unfortunately KONAMI never patched 9th style during its run, but thankfully [[AC 10th style|the following game]] fixed all these problems. | beatmania IIDX finally got an upgrade to PC hardware with [[AC 9th style|beatmania IIDX 9th style]], resulting in higher resolution graphics, no more blanked out videos during gameplay, and a '''lot''' of new songs and revivals: 60 new songs and 28 revivals. Unfortunately, it came with a price; the PC hardware was not very reliable. Many machines crashed when attempting to run ONE MORE EXTRA STAGE song [[quasar]], and [[General Relativity]] had a glitch when it would used the timing windows of the previous song, resulting in no timing windows at all and causing the player to fail. Unfortunately KONAMI never patched 9th style during its run, but thankfully [[AC 10th style|the following game]] fixed all these problems. | ||
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* February 5th: ''pop'n music 9 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 7'' album released. | * February 5th: ''pop'n music 9 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 7'' album released. | ||
* February 27th: [[ | * February 27th: [[CS pnm Best Hits|pop'n music Best Hits!]] is released in Japan for the PlayStation 2. | ||
== March == | == March == | ||