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
2021
2022
2023
2024
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.
- December 9th, 2019
- beatmania IIDX ULTIMATE MOBILE was released.
- August 5th, 2020
- beatmania IIDX INFINITAS was heavily upgraded.