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ice on 19 September 2021
Zippy6 said:

Week ending Nov 6th!

I got either Nov6 or Oct30 depending on shipments.



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derpysquirtle64 on 22 September 2021

Should be early to mid November. I guess I'll risk and go with Nov 6 as many others.



 

Chicho on 22 September 2021
Kakadu18 said:

Pretty sure Dreamcast sold over 9 million.

Yeah, seems  VGChartz only tracked the Dreamcast through fiscal year 2001.

This is from sega fiscal year report 2001

Domestic sales volumes for the Dreamcast home video game console amounted to 470 thousand hardware units and 4.75 million software units. In the United
States, 1.78 million hardware units and 13.65 millionsoftware units were sold. Hardware and software salesin Europe were 930 thousand units and 4.83 million units, respectively, and 210 thousand units and 640thousand units in Asia (outside Japan), respectively. Atotal of 3.39 million hardware units and 23.87 million
software units were sold worldwide during fiscal 2001,for respective totals of 8.20 million units and 51.63 million units since Dreamcast was first brought to
market.

 Full report here https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/library/pdf/printing_archive/2001/e_sega_annual_tuuki_2001.pdf

This is from the Revisions to Annual Results Forecasts

Regarding sales of Dreamcast hardware from inventory resulting from the withdrawal from Dreamcast production, SEGA strove to deliver DC hardware into the hands of end users through price cuts and by marketing software along with the Dreamcast units, and the Company exceeded initial targets with domestic sales of 130,000 units and U.S. sales of 530,000 units for the first half. Consequently, at the end of the half, Dreamcast inventories totaled 40,000 units domestically and 230,000 units for the United States, and we anticipate being able to sell all remaining units by the holiday season as initially planned.

source here https://web.archive.org/web/20150726015556/https://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/ir/release/pdf/past/sega/2002/20011030.pdf

and this is from the Year 2002 report 

The year ended March 31, 2002 was a turning point for SEGA. We exited
the hardware business, ceasing production of Dreamcast™ and selling
through the remaining inventory.
Sales of game software came to 14.65 million units, an achievement that
surpassed our target of 13.90 million units.

Full 2002 report here https://www.segasammy.co.jp/japanese/ir/library/pdf/printing_archive/2002/sega/sega_annual_tuuki_2002.pdf

So yeah that a total of 9.13 Million units and 74.28 software units.

Series X|S will surpass the Dreamcast but it may take just a bit longer.