I just looked up the sales figures for shenmue and even tho it sold pretty good , but not good even to come close to breaking even.
It also sold moderately well, with 460,316 units in the US alone
acording to Game chartz, its one of only six Dreamcast games to ever break one million units sold worldwide with it hitting 1,180,000.
However, these sales figures were not enough for Sega to recoup the massive production costs.."