To be honest, the PSone->PS2 jump wasn't made with arcade hardware. Konami used the old PSone-based Bemani 573 Digital hardware from the 3rdMIX series all the way up to EXTREME before swapping it out for PS2-based hardware. The first PS2 DDR came out about 7 months before the arcade DDR EXTREME (The last Bemani 573 arcade DDR before the PS2 hardware made its debut about 2.5 years later in the form of DS Fusion).

Also, the 20GB PS3s have backwards compatibility last I heard; they just don't have things like WiFi and four USB ports or something to that effect.

I think the main series should continue on whatever platform is new. DDR made the transition from PSone to PS2 just fine. I think we can say the same of a PS2->PS3 transition. And no, I don't think there should be a version of a game for the PS2 and another for the PS3. Konami Europe did that briefly with DS Fever and DS Fusion, and it did not turn out well.

I'm all for a PS3 version--just make sure the DLC is in flat-dollar amounts. I'm tired of paying $X.99 and having pennies leftover that can only even themselves out with my hundredth purchase. And I'd love DLC on a PlayStation DDR for once.

As for the topic of song content, I'd have to say I'd like some old licenses rather than just old songs in general, which is going to cause giggles over at Konami of Japan. Hero Discotique Mix, Cat's Eye Ventura Mix, the Captain Jack version of Odoru Ponpokolin, and maybe Moonlight Shadow and Temple of Love. These are classics that have, for the most part, not been seen outside of Japanese releases. And don't forget to include DO ME (H.I.G.E.O MIX) again! That was a good revival from 4th PLUS. I'd also like to see a slew of beatmania crossovers and revivals. INFINITE PRAYER -floating flock style- (another) comes to mind. Euro licenses and some Xbox-exclusives would be excellent additions. I'd love to see Oh My Gosh, Where's Your Head At, IN MY EYES (Midihead Remix), or i feel... (T.O.Y. Remix). No NU FLOW, please.

For graphics, I'm not terribly picky. Yes, I would love high-res; that's a given on any current-gen platform (Regardless of generation), but I would accept 720p support if it meant no lag. One of the big things people seem to be forgetting when they complain about the sync/lag of the Xbox titles is that they weren't produced by Konami of Japan, but rather Konami of Hawaii. The Japanese studios are responsible for pretty much all of the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 titles. I'm not dissing KoH, they did great things with the Ultramix series that I really appreciate, like the licenses (Jondi & Spesh, Midihead), the fact that the Xbox games have DLC, etc. What I am saying, though, is that if there is a PS3 version, it will more than likely be developed by a Japanese division, and I don't think they would believe the lag cause by video, higher resolution, or whathaveyou would be acceptable. Thus I have more faith in a PS3 DDR being a more solid and worthy release.

On the topic of backgrounds and videos, I have to voice that I'm sick and tired of the mundane platform backgrounds. Those honestly need to go. The characters could be high-res like the Xbox versions, but please, less ****ty. You people have had your fanservice already with the SuperNOVAs and Ultramixes, and enough is enough. Yes, Blu-ray discs have tons of space. The single-layer discs hold 25GB, and the dual layer discs hold 50GB (To correct an earlier post that claimed all Blu-rays hold 50GB). The early DDR games didn't have much in the way of background videos. From their initial release up until I want to say around the MAX series, the games used sprites and image animations for backgrounds. In the MAX/MAX2/EXTREME era, most of the songs still used those, though some songs had actual background videos (Like most home version licenses; Dream a Dream, In the Navy '99, Conga Feeling--although Conga Feeling was a revival song). Til this point, most of the games were reasonably sized. Maybe 2, 2.5GB for the PS2 versions. Then came the DDR STRIKE/DDR EXTREME2/DS Max line of games that had full background videos for, if my memory serves correctly, SOME songs, and the games took up almost 4GB. But then they released the SuperNOVA titles and now we've got songs either with videos (Xepher) or with nothing, and the usage is back down to just over a gig. If Konami wanted to make full background videos for every song they put on there, I'd put my support behind it. The platforms are disgusting, boring, and distasteful. It's almost like they thought Pizza Box would be trendy.

Konami, I'm sure you've got something for the PS3 lined up, and I'm glad, but whatever you do, do NOT pull another DDRMAX. I don't want to have a game with 50 songs and little to no features.

I vote for HERO (KCP DISCOTIQUE MIX). And if you really wanted to be annoying, throw in MONEY from the 1stMIX location test.

A few corrections.. 

-DDR 1st Mix test had a song called JUMP! But never was in the final release.
> The location test machine for the initial release of DDR also had MONEY (Ragga Twins) and BOYS (SMiLE.dk). BOYS was obviously included on 2ndMIX. Another interesting tidbit is that the prototype for DDR was called Dancing Stage. Konami, this is where I plead to you to release the DS prototype and the location test 1stMIX for use in MAME. Yeah, it probably doesn't exist anymore, but ******, be proud of your roots and don't forget where it started (*coughbeatmaniacough*).

-DDR 2nd ReMix Club Version was able to link with a beatmania IIDX arcade machine, this feature was onlty used for that release, and was never used again.
> In this one, you're confusing information. You're mixing four individual games into one misinformed statement. For starters, 2ndReMIX was the home version of 2ndMIX and was only able to link with 2ndMIX LINK VERSiON machines to save scores/Internet Ranking data (Maybe 3rdMIX, too. It's been a while since I've played it).

>Next order of business, 2ndMIX was never able to natively interface with a IIDX machine. What you're speaking about are the Club Kits, and by Kits (plural), I mean there were two. Club Kit 1 allowed a 2ndMIX machine to interface with a beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON machine so that the IIDX player would mix the music and the DDR player(s) would play music to it. The logo for this read "Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX with beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON".

> A few months after the release of the Club Kit, they released Club Kit 2 which allowed 2ndMIX to interface with a beatmania IIDX substream machine. The logo for this read "Dance Dance Revolution 2ndMIX and beatmania IIDX CLUB VERSiON 2". Yes, they changed the 'with' to an 'and'.

-DDR games used Playstation memory cards for every mix past 3rd~EXTREME. The odd thing was that even before you got threw the entire songlist, the memory card would be full.
> I'm not sure what you're talking about here, and I can tell it's a little misconstrued. The memory card interface was introduced with 2ndMIX LINK VERSiON, which came out between the releases of the Club Kits (And apparently on the same day as beatmania for the WonderSwan, according to my sources). They allowed users to save scores between the arcade and home versions, bring edit data to the arcade, and bring internet ranking codes back home. I believe you needed one bit of link data per arcade game, which may have been what you were talking about. One block for the console game, one block for the link data (Two blocks of link data for DDRMAX, MAX2, and EXTREME, and you could only have one instance of this "Future Version" data on a memory card at a time).

 -there was a DDR Competition KONAMI ran, and the tournament included a new game CD, that was only used at the tournament, and the Game CD's were taken away right after the competition as well. The CD added a few extra songs to the game (I am not sure what game it ran on, I think it was 2nd or 3rd though).
> I've seen this floating around on the internet. It's called DDR Best of Cool Dancers. It runs off of 2ndMIX and only has four songs, all of which are pulled from the 2ndMIX game disc. It does not add any songs, and it's pretty useless considering that of each of the four songs you could only play them on one difficulty in one mode, and when you finished/failed, it would simply ask for the next player and keep going.

I'd love for Konami to bring back the ASCs.

One song would have to depend on where it's coming from. Oldschool revival? CAT'S EYE (Ventura Mix). Yeah, yeah, I know, it's a license, whatever. IIDX crossover? You're so going to hate me for this. Either of the Dr. Bombay songs from 3rd style.

I second the notion for official word on ITG. I'm not the biggest fan, but I want the issue to be put to rest already.

I'll counter your Hero Happy Grandale with some KCP Discotique Mix.

I would have liked to see Konami patch the game to 1) run without a CD and 2) have the option to run in a window.