Dreamcast Shortage?

For those who didn’t gat a DC on 9.9.99, this story from Sega X is a prime reason to get yours now:

As God makes little green apples, so do hardware manufacturers warn of “shortages” when their consoles are birthed. The latest announcement comes, unsurprisingly, from Sega of America. Vice President of Marketing, Peter Moore explained in a recent press release, “We are already in excess of what we expected to sell in the month of September. If we keep up at this stretch going into the busier months of October and into December, production will be challenged.”

It is true that Dreamcast has been selling optimistically in North America since its September 9 launch. 514,000 consoles were sold, just two weeks after the debut. Mr. Moore continues, explaining that while Sega will be able to meet a demand which exceeds one million units, it will become increasingly more difficult as that figure inches toward two million. Current forecasts projects the company selling in excess of 1.8 million units, by the close of the Holiday shopping frenzy.

This situation has a big chance of happening, so we’ll see what happens come December.