Dreamcast to see re-release in Japan?

**Dyne** · 04 Feb 2004, 02:44 AM

Originally Posted by diffusionx

Nobody embraced the system anywhere. Dreamcast was a huge failure.

itll be big in brazil when they all stop playing their master systems.....i mean mark III's.

**AaronChance** · 04 Feb 2004, 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by neoalphazero

Top selling game for Japanese Xbox last week:

Breakdown (Namco) 1,600 units

Top selling game for Japanese DC last week:

Izumo (Studio Ego) 3,700 units

Of course the top selling PS2 game was like 80,000 copies

*-neo

And the second game was PS2 and 60,000 copies and the third also PS2 and 50,000 copies...

I don't think it's fair to compare the sales of those games though. Japan is well known as the land of perverts so a hentai rape sim is going to outsell a first person punching game every time, unless the latter involved beating up a schoolgirl tied to a chair.

**Brotherman** · 04 Feb 2004, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by diffusionx

Nobody embraced the system anywhere. Dreamcast was a huge failure.

I know it wasn't that huge of a success, but it still has a larger userbase than both XBox and GC doesn't it?

**mollipen** · 04 Feb 2004, 10:27 AM

Originally Posted by Ammadeau

I don't think it's fair to compare the sales of those games though. Japan is well known as the land of perverts so a hentai rape sim is going to outsell a first person punching game every time, unless the latter involved beating up a schoolgirl tied to a chair.

The only problem is, it isn't like this is a one-time deal. The DC constantly outsold the Xbox while I was over there. At least, much more often than it should have.

**SmoothCriminal** · 04 Feb 2004, 05:29 PM

I heard that these are refurbished units with new packaing or somesort. Maybe individually numbered refurbished systems complete with certificate to justify the purchase? I hope they are at least new, if not have some difference then the regular JP DCs...

**Diff-chan** · 04 Feb 2004, 08:39 PM

Originally Posted by Brotherman

I know it wasn't that huge of a success, but it still has a larger userbase than both XBox and GC doesn't it?

Uhh... no, I dont think so, and if it does, Im sure a large part of that is because of units that were being given away at the end of the system's lifecycle (like a year and a half after it came out). In any case, only a small small fraction of systems purchased are still being used today so it's a moot point.

**Wildkat** · 04 Feb 2004, 11:20 PM

Wait.....one second here...

Sega is still in business?

Wow....just wow.

**AaronChance** · 05 Feb 2004, 12:18 AM

Originally Posted by shidoshi

The only problem is, it isn't like this is a one-time deal. The DC constantly outsold the Xbox while I was over there. At least, much more often than it should have.

I don't think it's more often than it should have. Games like Otogi, Tekki, and anything by Team Ninja sell well while crappy releases like Tao Feng and Blinx and a mass of games MS doesn't bother to localize sell like crap... and for such a weak effort, I'd say they deserve to.

I don't like pure date sims myself, but staring at the artwork of those games is a hell of a lot more fun than playing Blinx.