spud1897
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- Joined
- Jul 24, 2018
- Location
- England
- Favourite title
- Shenmue II
- Currently playing
- Destiny 2, Shenmue HD ;)
- PSN
- spud19870
Its widely accepted Shenmue I did around 1.2 million sales, some say 1.18 million
This is a board post from 2007 IGN: https://www.ignboards.com/threads/shenmue-was-not-a-flop-interesting-look-at-sales-data.148682510/
Wikipedia while not academia has it at 1.2 million: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenmue_(video_game)
Kotaku have Shenmue 1 as the 9th best selling dreamcast game: https://kotaku.com/the-best-selling-games-for-ps1-n64-saturn-and-dreamc-1830239627
VGChartz (yes I know the accuracy can be questioned) has it as the 4th best selling dreamcast game of all time as 1.18 million: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/270395/dreamcast-turns-19-top-10-best-selling-games-on-the-console/
And one more at 1.18 million: https://www.listal.com/list/bestselling-dreamcast-games
The HD ports are much more difficult to judge as no figures were ever released. Based on what little we know it's likely, IMO it did around 250k-350k sales as a spectrum. I'm also sure someone mentioned that it is still getting new players on Steam and PS4 in a steady manner, so it's not done too badly.
This is a board post from 2007 IGN: https://www.ignboards.com/threads/shenmue-was-not-a-flop-interesting-look-at-sales-data.148682510/
Wikipedia while not academia has it at 1.2 million: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shenmue_(video_game)
Kotaku have Shenmue 1 as the 9th best selling dreamcast game: https://kotaku.com/the-best-selling-games-for-ps1-n64-saturn-and-dreamc-1830239627
VGChartz (yes I know the accuracy can be questioned) has it as the 4th best selling dreamcast game of all time as 1.18 million: https://www.vgchartz.com/article/270395/dreamcast-turns-19-top-10-best-selling-games-on-the-console/
And one more at 1.18 million: https://www.listal.com/list/bestselling-dreamcast-games
The HD ports are much more difficult to judge as no figures were ever released. Based on what little we know it's likely, IMO it did around 250k-350k sales as a spectrum. I'm also sure someone mentioned that it is still getting new players on Steam and PS4 in a steady manner, so it's not done too badly.