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curl-6 on 10 June 2015
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MikeRox said:
curl-6 said:

Giving Dreamcast a free 12 months extra in a major territory isn't a fair comparison, unless you remove the sales it acquired in that time from the equation.

Go ahead and do that, it doesn't really change anything - According to VGC which has Dreamcast at 8.2m units to the general figure of 10.6m.

Wii U  - USA - 4.5m
Europe - 2.27m

Dreamcast - USA - 3.9m 
Europe - 1.91m

Even if you add that 12 months for Japan, the pace is about the same. I don't think there is any way it is possible for you to attempt to spin this in a positive light.

According to this graph, sourced from Famitsu, ( http://i.imgur.com/fXy4i.png ) DC sold 1.1m in it's first year in Japan. Take that away from it's total sales (which top out at 10.6m, though I'm informed that this figure is heavily overtracked it was actually around 9.3m) and you get a maximum (likely excessive) figure of 9.5m, which Wii U passed back in March. 

The actual figures probably put Dreamcast's post-first-year sales at around 8.2m, which Wii U passed some time ago.