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Soundwave said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

I'd say the Game Gear or the PC Engine GT would be better fits than the Nomad for a Switch predecessor

No I think the OP is correct. I think the PC Engine GT had to use wall power, no? 

The Nomad is more like the Switch, but back in the 90s, you'd have to carry around like 6 batteries to constantly power this thing and the cartridges were full size Genesis carts, so it was laughably bulky to walk around with. 

Also Sega gave this no marketing push or anything at all, they just kinda quietly released it, I don't remember even seeing 1 TV commercial for it ever, even Nintendo pushed the Virtual Boy harder than that. 

And of course unlike Switch the Nomad had no new games, just old existing Genesis titles. 

There was a period in the late 90's/early 2000s where I wondered if the Nomad and Sega Channel were weird fever dreams I made up in my head because I couldn't find anyone else that ever heard about them. If it wasn't for the ubiquity of the Internet, I'd be there now with the Wii U.