In a report from
bemanistyle.com, we have learn some interesting things for DanceDanceRevolution. First off, Vice President of U.S. Amusement of Konami Digital Entertainment, Naoki Okada, has confirmed that X2 WILL be hitting U.S. Arcades. The bad news is that they confirmed that they will be using a newly designed cabinet different from that the poor DDR X cabinets used, but not the same as that of the Japanese units, all in a part to be suitable for the U.S. Market. Also sadly noted they still plan to have certain parts of the pad structure to still be made out of wood. This is left us highly questionable to whether it will live up to the expectations of the dance gaming community, who is already disappointed with the performance of the DDR X cabinets. At this time there is no release date for DDR X in the U.S. In addition, Konami intends to have secret location tests for the DDR X cabinets in the upcoming future, so everyone just be doing periodical checks of your local arcades and family fun centers. You never know where they can show up.