2017
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2017
KONAMI officially launches a BEMANI series in with ノスタルジア (NOSTALGIA), which had made its debut the year prior in JAEPO 2016. ノスタルジア is a spiritual successor of the KEYBOARDMANIA series, as it focuses on piano-based gameplay, although it has several differences to its predecessor both in gameplay and in cabinet design.
Unfortunately, 2017 also marked the end of the BeatStream series. 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, and the series went offline permanently on September 1st. Instead, KONAMI offered arcade operators a conversion kit to change their BeatStream machines to ノスタルジア ones.
In spring 2017, KONAMI removed all of the artist pages from the BEMANI Fan Page website, and also dropped the long-standing beatnation Records name that had been in use since 2006. In fall 2017, KONAMI also started listing its in-house BEMANI staff as BEMANI Sound Team, and for a few weeks in pop'n music even went so far as to uncredit in-house songs completely. Nearly all BEMANI songs done in-house since fall 2017 feature the BEMANI Sound Team name in front of the artist name.
However, it also left far more lasting effects in the series than just an added moniker in front of in-house artist names, which can be viewed on the BEMANI Sound Team page.
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 were 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 28th: episode 178 of BEMANI Namahousou (kari) (BEMANI生放送(仮)), the last numbered episode of the show, is aired. The show would go on a month long hiatus, and the original host fired. Upon its return in July, it will be hosted by Yuki Nakashima alongside various other commissioned/contest artists, aired far less frequently, and no longer have any in-house BEMANI staff on the show.
- 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.
August
- August 5th: Location tests of beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS were cancelled due to threatening messages on twitter; this marks it as the first beatmania IIDX location test to be prematurely stopped. Future location tests for this game were cancelled.
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.
October
- October 4th: SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS コナステ is released in Japan for PC (as SOUND VOLTEX III GRAVITY WARS e-AMUSEMENT CLOUD).
November
- November 1st: All in-house BEMANI songs start being credited to BEMANI Sound Team. The reason for this is unknown.
- November 15th: Hinatabi Bitter Sweets♪ and Coconatsu's album, SWEET SMILE♡HEROES, is released.
December
- December 13th: The change of "BEMANI Sound Team" was partially reverted, with the in-house artists now being credited as BEMANI Sound Team "artist".
- OST booklets from 2018 forward also list in-house BEMANI artists as Konami Amusement (artist name).
- December 21st: beatmania IIDX 25 CANNON BALLERS is released to Japanese arcades.
Unknown date
- Daisuke Kurosawa, Yuichi Tsuchiya, and Masanori Akita leave KONAMI after 10, 17, and 18 years respectively at the company. They all go to work at a newly formed music company named INSPION
- After years of commissioned work in BEMANI, Takahiro Fukase officially joins KONAMI sometime late in the year.