AOU 2009

AOU 2009 KONAMI Special Site

The AOU 2009 will take place in Japan on 20th and 21st of February.

For a list of games that KONAMI will be exhibiting, refer to the press release: Here.

KONAMI booth report. (From goku2.com)

What's the difference between video games and medal games?

Medal games are the ones that give out tokens in Japan.

It's the equivalent of our coin pusher games. Gambling is banned in Japan that's why they cannot use standard coins.

...wut? Why can't they use their own machines? Idk, but this seems funny to me XD

...however, i hope they give a release date (or month) when they have them over there >_>

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Maybe they want to give a taste to the Japanese people the machines we'll be getting? To be fair, they have enough jubeat machines to know what their version is like!

true that...well, like i said, i hope they at least give some info on WHEN these machines will be out in the US/EU...

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So, Japan gets the Japanese version, and the US/EU version, while we only get the US/EU version. Yeah, we're not an important market.

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Not exactly, they're only getting it for the AOU 2009 event.

couldn't it be like the Korean machines or something.. is it like truly definitive that they are getting EU/US versions?

them having EU/US versions just seems too weird to me ;/

The Ad for it sensationalizes them being able to play "exclusive overseas songs", so that's probably why they want to do it.

Nah can't be the Korean machines, we've got actual confirmation from the jubeat STAFF BLOG itself now.

Bump: AOU2009 business day tomorrow for the press and others to get information. Would advise to check the Japanese game news sites for updates from 1am GMT onwards tonight.

I'm more excited by the news of Death Smiles 2 (Cave), myself :p

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2ch is hinting at the fact UBeat is the exact same version as the NA/EU versions. So no news there for our UBeat unfortunately. Definite confirmation should come tomorrow when the event is open to the public.

Bump: The next version of jubeat is confirmed to be under construction, as announced by KONAMI at AOU2009.

Wow 5 hour wait to play Empress, must be popular there

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That is a long wait to play empress. Only 1 hour to play DDR compared to the 5 hours to play iidx.

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They made it so you could get early EMPRESS unlocks by playing it at AOU2009 ... see what they did there? xD

And ironically there's a fully unlocked Empress in California lol.

Really? I'd think it would be the other way around. Where is this at anyway?

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Err, Japan? Why would the front page image be in Japanese lol.

... good point.

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