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Dreamcast: 9.13 million units sold

The Dreamcast is the #32 best-selling gaming machine of all time in this dataset. It belongs to the 6th generation, where it placed #4 of 4 machines by units sold.

  • 9.1MUnits sold
  • #32All-time rank
  • 6Generation
  • 1998Released

Games released on the Dreamcast hold 5 Game of the Year awards in this database, led by Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 with 3. A game counts for every machine it shipped on, so these totals overlap between consoles. The most-awarded games on it: Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (3, 2000); Sakura Wars (1, 1996); Soulcalibur (1, 1999).

Generation 6 counts 4 machines here, 214.9 million units between them; the best seller was PlayStation 2 at 160.0 million. The sales figure comes from Wikipedia, List of best-selling game consoles.

Of the 9 Sega machines tracked here, it is number 5 by units sold, behind Mega Drive/Genesis at 30.8 million.

Its generation rivals

ConsoleMaker Units vs Dreamcast
PlayStation 2Sony160.00M+150.87M
XboxMicrosoft24.00M+14.87M
Nintendo GameCubeNintendo21.74M+12.61M

Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.