IIDX History
| beatmania IIDX |
|---|
| Arcade Releases |
| 1st - substream - 2nd - 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th - 7th 8th - 9th - 10th - 11 IIDX RED - 12 HAPPY SKY 13 DistorteD - 14 GOLD - 15 DJ TROOPERS 16 EMPRESS - 17 SIRIUS - 18 Resort Anthem 19 Lincle - 20 tricoro - 21 SPADA - 22 PENDUAL 23 copula - 24 SINOBUZ - 25 CANNON BALLERS 26 Rootage - 27 HEROIC VERSE 28 BISTROVER - 29 CastHour - 30 RESIDENT 31 EPOLIS - 32 Pinky Crush |
| Foreign Arcade Releases |
| beatmania IIDX (China) - tricoro (China) |
| Home Releases |
| Sony PlayStation 2 |
| 3rd - 4th - 5th - 6th - 7th - 8th - 9th - 10th beatmania (2006) - 11 IIDX RED - 12 HAPPY SKY 13 DistorteD - 14 GOLD - 15 DJ TROOPERS 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST |
| PC Releases |
| INFINITAS - INFINITAS (2020) |
| Mobile Releases |
| i-αppli - IIDX i-αppli - ULTIMATE MOBILE |
Arcade Release Timeline
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Home Release Timeline
- November 2nd, 2000
- beatmania IIDX 3rd style CS released.
- March 29th, 2001
- beatmania IIDX 4th style -new songs collection- released.
- August 30th, 2001
- beatmania IIDX 5th style -new songs collection- released.
- July 18th, 2002
- beatmania IIDX 6th style -new songs collection- released.
- September 27th, 2003
- Konami announces that they are considering making beatmania IIDX 7th style CS after over a year of hiatus. To proceed, players would have to fill out 10,000 questionnaires.
- October 22nd, 2003
- 10,000 questionnaires are filled out.
- November 27th, 2003
- Pre-orders begin for beatmania IIDX 7th style CS. Konami announces they must receive at least 20,000 pre-orders to release the game.
- December 25th, 2003
- beatmania IIDX 7th style CS is officially announced.
- May 13th, 2004
- beatmania IIDX 7th style CS released in limited quantities from KONAMI STYLE.
- August 5th, 2004
- beatmania IIDX 7th style CS released normally due to overwhelming demand.
- November 18th, 2004
- beatmania IIDX 8th style CS released.
- March 24th, 2005
- beatmania IIDX 9th style CS released.
- November 17th, 2005
- beatmania IIDX 10th style CS released.
- March 29th, 2006
- beatmania (American version) released.
- May 18th, 2006
- beatmania IIDX 11 IIDX RED CS released.
- December 14th, 2006
- beatmania IIDX 12 HAPPY SKY CS released.
- August 30th, 2007
- beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD CS released.
- May 29th, 2008
- beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD CS released.
- December 17th, 2008
- beatmania IIDX 15 DJ TROOPERS CS released.
- October 15th, 2009
- beatmania IIDX 16 EMPRESS + PREMIUM BEST released.
- October 11th, 2010
- Japanese fans start a petition to release beatmania IIDX 17 SIRIUS for home release.
- October 15th, 2010
- Konami responds to the petition, and opens up a Twitter account on KONAMI STYLE for people to express their opinions. They ask what system it should be on - PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, or something else.
- November 2nd, 2010
- Konami puts up on KONAMI STYLE a new line of IIDX controllers for sale on March 17th, 2011, at a reduced price of 6,090 yen.
- December 18th, 2010
- Konami puts an update on their Twitter account on KONAMI STYLE concerning SIRIUS and a possible home version, highly increasing tension on a possible CS release.
- May 22nd, 2011
- Konami responds with further info on a SIRIUS CS by starting a petition poll not unlike what they did with 7th style, requiring users to use e-AMUSEMENT GATE to sign it.
- March 26th, 2013
- Konami replies via twitter that they have no plans at the moment for a console beatmania IIDX title, but have taken note of the demand for the games.
- September 2nd, 2015
- An open alpha test of beatmania IIDX INFINITAS, a PC-only release of beatmania IIDX, was released and could be played only for some hours of the same day.
- October 22nd-28th, 2015
- Second beatmania IIDX INFINITAS alpha test begins, limited to 5,000 applicants through a ballot.
- December 1st, 2015
- beatmania IIDX INFINITAS was released. A trial version for benchmarking purposes was also released.
- August 5th, 2020
- beatmania IIDX INFINITAS was heavily upgraded.