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[Megiddo]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

Megiddo said:

So in a span of 2.5 years from the release of the first game to the release of the second it lost around 230k sales.... and you're surprised that the 3rd game isn't doing well now 18 years after Shenmue II was released?

Dude, releasing a game at that time for the Dreamcast was akin to come out with a Wii U exclusive during the 2017 holiday season when the console was pretty much dead and replaced already. At that point reaching 150k is actually a big achievement, because everybody has already moved on with the console.

Dude, there were 380k people who owned a Dreamcast who bought the first game. They're still the main audience for the sequel, dude, which it completely failed to reach.

Sakura Wars 3, which launched for the Dreamcast in 2001, sold over 300k copies. What a shocker. Sakura Wars 4 came out a year later in 2002 and still managed over 250k copies. My god how could that be possible as everyone had already moved on.