2017

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2017

Daisuke Kurosawa, also known as 96, left KONAMI in early 2017 and joined a newly formed music company named INSPION, alongside Takeshi Kuramochi, Masanori Akita, and Yuichi Tsuchiya.

2017 marks the end of the BeatStream series. However, unlike the DanceEvolution and ミライダガッキ FutureTomTom series, no offline patch was released for BeatStream アニムトライヴ, making the cabinets unable to boot once eAMUSEMENT support for the game ended on September 1st. Instead, KONAMI offered arcade operators a conversion kit of the BeatStream machines to a new BEMANI series.

The new BEMANI series introduced in 2017 is ノスタルジア (NOSTALGIA), which made its first debut in JAEPO 2016. ノスタルジア is a spiritual successor of the KEYBOARDMANIA series, as it focuses on a piano-based gameplay, although it has several differences to its predecessor both in gameplay and in cabinet design.

January

• January 11th:
  • jubeat prop ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
  • jubeat Qubell ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.

February

• February 11th: The 6th KONAMI Arcade Championship and 天下一音ゲ祭 全国一斉認定大会 2016 are held at JAEPO 2017.

March

• March 1st:
  • ノスタルジア is released to Japanese arcades. Conversion kits for BeatStream cabinets are offered to arcade operators by KONAMI.
  • beatmania IIDX 24 SINOBUZ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
• March 15th:
  • Hinatabi Bitter Sweets♪'s third album, Home Sweet Home, is released.
  • Coconatsu's second mini-album, バイナリスター, is released.

April

• April 12th: REFLEC BEAT 悠久のリフレシア＋VOLZZA ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK released.
• April 20th: ノスタルジア is released to Korean arcades.

June

• June 30th: Jin Senbonmatsu leaves KONAMI after 11 years with the company.

July

• July 19th: ノスタルジア FORTE is released to Japanese arcades.
• July 26th: jubeat clan is released to Japanese arcades.
• July 31st: jubeat clan is released to Korean arcades.

September

• September 1st: eAMUSEMENT support for BeatStream アニムトライヴ ended, marking the end of the BeatStream series as eAMUSEMENT is required to boot and no offline patch was released for the series.
• September 6th: GITADORA Matixx is released to Japanese arcades.

November

• November 1st: All in-house BEMANI songs start being credited to BEMANI Sound Team. The reason for this is unknown, and the change is partially reverted during December.
• November 15th: Hinatabi Bitter Sweets♪ and Coconatsu's album, SWEET SMILE♡HEROES, is released.

December

• December 21st: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS released.

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