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Postby krispykreme » Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:49 am

Reenee wrote:LOKI, did you find out about beatmania's pricing?
The upcoming March USA release of everyone's favorite bemani game, BEATMANIA now has a price to go with it. It will be offered in 2 flavors, a $49.99 version with the turntable controller or a $39.99 version without the controller. Beatmania is set to hit stores March 15th.

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Postby Reenee » Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:51 pm

Did you see the replies?
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Postby sephiroth1215 » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:26 pm

What about a V-rare? Remember last year Konami said that there would be 3 V-rares that year and we only got 2?
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Postby tweak_ » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:59 am

Thats why ive been putting off pre-ordering it.
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Postby LOKI » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:05 am

The only difference with the pricing now is that the game without controller sku has been removed otherwise it's still $49.99 retail. My Konami rep hasn't gotten back to me yet. I know he travels alot because he's the associate regional sales manager.
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Postby krispykreme » Thu Feb 09, 2006 12:01 pm

Yeah. I called EB games last night and they said that they'll be getting the bundle pack on the 29th of March for $60.
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Postby LOKI » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:04 pm

Well just heard back from my rep. The bundle is indeed $59.99. There will be a game only version available only at Gamestop, EB, and Game Crazy as well. The date though is still 3/14/06.
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Postby krispykreme » Thu Feb 09, 2006 1:35 pm

LOKI wrote:Well just heard back from my rep. The bundle is indeed $59.99. There will be a game only version available only at Gamestop, EB, and Game Crazy as well. The date though is still 3/14/06.
Oh. Ok. So I guess i'll try calling other places to see if they are getting it earlier than my local EB.
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Postby letshavetea » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:01 pm

... any xbox release?.. i dont want to have to deal with my PS2.. :(
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Postby krispykreme » Thu Feb 09, 2006 5:27 pm

letshavetea wrote:... any xbox release?.. i dont want to have to deal with my PS2.. :(
I don't think it'll be releasing on the Xbox. But what do i know.
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Postby sephiroth1215 » Thu Feb 09, 2006 8:19 pm

That would suck to buy 2 different controllers so I hope they never do that.
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Postby DarkTetsuya » Thu Feb 09, 2006 9:02 pm

letshavetea wrote:... any xbox release?.. i dont want to have to deal with my PS2.. :(


Not yet, but who knows? I read in an interview about bmUS that an XBOX version wasn't completely out of the question. (IIDXBOX, anyone? :P)

Although it would make highscore saving via live and downloadable songpacks perfect additions...

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Postby tweak_ » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:04 am

Yeah, songpacks would be be sweet.

I checked my local gamestop last night, they dont even have a date for BM, just a price of $64.99. They're not even selling single copies, just the bundle.
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Postby VxJasonxV » Fri Feb 10, 2006 4:33 am

I would honestly hope that copies of the game by itself are hard/rare to find.

Those of us WITH a controller are most certainly the minority. And you WILL WANT/NEED a IIDX controller to play this game. Dual Shocking it up is just not fun, and more or less defeats the purpose.
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Postby Reenee » Fri Feb 10, 2006 12:32 pm

There are E3 interviews that say that the beatmania team will look into porting the game to other consoles depending on how beatmania US will sell.
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