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Shenmue 3 announce spikes Dreamcast console sales, retailers say

Dreamcast consoles are hot ticket items in the wake of E3 2015.

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The Shenmue 3 Kickstarter has triggered a sharp spike in Dreamcast console sales as players attempt to track down the first two releases.

According to MCV, one indie retailer sold 20 Dreamcast consoles in a single week, and credits it to players wanting to play Shenmue.

"I’ve had more customers hyped about Shenmue 3 than Call of Duty," David James-Turvey of Llanelli’s Retrobution said.

Sales of the games have also spiked, along with early Final Fantasy games, another retailer said.

It's such a shame we don't have a reliable tracking chart for the second-hand market; I'd love to see if this trend is really widespread.

Shenmue and Shenmue 2 have never been re-released digitally, unfortunately, so tracking down physical copies is your best bet. Shenmue 2 came out on Xbox, by the way, so if you can grab a copy of that you might not need a whole extra console. You should own a Dreamcast anyway, obviously, because it is aces.

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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