The Database used for this list is from the Sega Dreamcast Magazine as well as its successor Magazine Dorimaga published by Softbank Publishing in Japan.
The Start Point is Issue 8/2001 published on the 16 of March 2001. Starting from Page 61 there is a full List of all Games published for Dreamcast in Japan at that point in time with units sold. From there on I started to go trough the weekly top 10 game sales ranking the magazine had each issue to add games released afterwards. Starting with the issue from the 25 of May 2001 the magazine was renamed from Sega Dreamcast Magazine to Dorimaga
However this list isn't perfect since we don't have a full archive for all issues of both magazines.
A list of the magazine issues not archived after the start Issue 08/2001 until Issue 02/2002:
- Issue 11/2001 from 2001-04-06 (of Sega Dreamcast Magazine)
- Issue 14/2001 from 2001-12-07 (of Dorimaga, all missing Issues afterwards are also Dorimaga)
- Issue 03/2002 from 2002-02-22
- Issue 03 extra/2002 from 2002-03-01
- Issue 05/2002 from 2002-03-22
- Issue 06/2002 from 2002-04-05
Afterwards there are only a couple more Issues archived so I will mention those instead of the missing:
- Issue 06/2002 from 2002-04-05
- Issue 06 extra/2002 from 2002-04-12
- Issue 11/2002 from 2002-06-28 (This one has has a list of Dreamcast Games and their sales released between 06.2001 and 02.06.2002 on page 30)
- Issue 16/2002 from 2002-09-06 (This one has has a top 10 best selling Dreamcast Games released between 01.2001 and 08.2002 on page 46)
- Issue 18/2002 from 2002-10-11
- Issue 21/2002 from 2002-11-22 (This one has has a list of a bunch of recently released Dreamcast Games and their sales on page 48)
- Issue 02/2003 from 2003-01-31 (This one has has a list of top 10 best selling Dreamcast Games released between 01.2001 and 12.2002 page 94)
You can find scannes the magazine issues used here:
Sega Dreamcast Magazine
Dorimaga
Dorimaga Internet Archive
Dreamcast Games were the Japanese name is significantly different from the US name have both names in the list from example: ''Virtua Tennis\Power Smash''
Some Dreamcast Games were rereleased for example Sakura Wars 3 had its original on March 22, 2001 and a Memorial Pack rerelease on March 07, 2002. Those Games are listed as: ''GameName [... Release]''
I have the list saved as a libre office file but I cant upload that here, so I will add it as a text file instead.
As for console sales. According to Issue 21/2002, page 48, from 2002-11-22 the Dreamcast had sold 2.8 million consoles in Japan. How does it compare to Saturn sales in Japan and worldwide Dreamcast sales? Sega of Japan's Website's history section says the Sega Saturn shipped, NOT sold, over 6 million consoles in Japan, it doesn't mention how much it shipped/sold worldwide, and the Dreamcast sold over 10 million consoles worldwide. Considering that Dreamcast console sales in Japan weren't even half of what the Saturn did there its safe to say the Dreamcast bombed in Japan. Sega's exit from the console market was a direct result of the Dreamcast's abysmal performance in Japan.
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