namco-bandai has announced dance dance revolution for the wii in its next incarnation named "hottest party" and is slated for a 2007 release. it will utilize traditional dance pads and the wii mote to play. cannot wait!

well yeah. of course they need ddr wii. I am wondering how it will connect... the pad might need to go in a gamecube port... or maybe even USB?

cant be usb. the wii has two usb ports and the announcement stated four people can play. most likely itll be gc ports.

from what ive gathered from inside sources is that the wii mote will be used in conjunction with the dance pad. theyre either going to have the dance pad hook up into the gc ports on top (saving the people who bought mario mix a lil money) or they are working on making a wireless dance pad that you simply plug a dongle into the bottom of the wii mote and put batteries in the pad itself. personally im thinking they will go with the gc ports because of the battery genocide the wii mote has already wrought upon your stash of batteries and they dont want to have to implement a whole new thing to go in the wii mote. gc ports are active while playing a wii game so this is totally possible. from what ive gathered as well you can also play it w/o the wii mote and just use the dance pad. no matter what they choose im buying it.

The IGN dudes got to play the demo (it's like pre-beta at the moment, Konami has been working on it for like 3 weeks) and right now the dance pad goes into the gamecube ports. They have a mode where you can dance without the remotes, and they have a mode where you can dance without the pad. They also have a 2-player mode where one uses the pad and the other uses the remotes. They are going to implement as many different modes as they can.

looks like my source was right. nxt gen or not not everyone has tons of batteries to throw away and i only have two sets of double rechargeables so if i have two or four in the pad ive got nothing to fall back on if the primary set in the wii mote dies. gc port will be fine.

oh dont worry, you dont HAVE to do the wii-mote thing. i never did the eyetoy thing on my ps2 for two reasons mostly but namely because the stupid thing didnt pick up your motions great unless you had some SERIOUS lighting behind you. ill get hottest party..... but do it minus the mote.

I've always thought DDR was fun for partys, but never worth buying.