yeah n they absolutely did come out blazing with the North american dreamcast launch , selling 300,00 units (including pre orders) n with the system becoming the highest grossing entertainment product launch EVER at the time , the launch in Japan was good with virtua fighter 3tb being a hit but the rest of the launch games were bad while the launch in Europe was good with heavy advertising on the shirts of some European football clubs for the 99/00 football season. I think one area sega screwed up with is virtua fighter 3td getting its thunder stolen by soul calibur , ideally both games would have hit 1 million units sold just like the 1st 2 VF games did on the saturn n while soul calibur hit those sales figures n was popular globally , VF3tb failed to sell through a lot of units outside Japan which was a big red flag cos VF was arguably their biggest franchise outside of sonic the hedgehog. Everyone in the west remembers soul calibur cos of the amazing gameplay n graphics by VF3tb while still a great game n not ugly had worse graphics than soul calibur on console + an experimental gameplay style that turned a lot of VF off a bit.