A closer look
Nothing screams fiscal responsibility quite like blowing your company's entire life savings on a virtual forklift simulator. Released in 1999 for the Dreamcast, Shenmue was supposed to revolutionize gaming with realistic weather and fully voiced NPCs. Instead, the insane $70 million budget meant that every single person who owned a Dreamcast would have had to buy the game twice just for Sega to break even. Unsurprisingly, it massively contributed to Sega leaving the console market.
