Even though Pop’n Music fizzled on Wii, Konami seems like they have other plans for the series beyond more arcade installments.

. The nine button configuration uses almost all of the PSP’s buttons by assigning yellow notes to L/R and the outermost keys to left on the D-pad / circle button.

A traditional Pop ‘n Music game is coming to PSP.

Konami had a build of Pop ‘n Music for me to check out. I played it and fans should know it’s North American debut is very different from the arcade game.

Pop ‘n Music’s box art tells a lot. See the red Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection logo? Konami plans to sell downloadable songs for Pop ‘n Music.

After eleven years and over a dozen arcade releases Pop ‘n Music is coming to North America.

Konami sort of brought Pop ‘n Music outside of Japan. Beat ‘n Groovy was a localized version of the arcade music game that perplexed newcomers and alienated fans with its art style. Perhaps, Konami is seriously thinking about bringing the original series overseas.