Sega nomad was Nintendo Switch in the 90's

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Chris Hu said:

The biggest flaw of the Nomad, Game Gear and pretty much all early handheld consoles besides all the versions of the original Game Boy/Game Boy Color is that they had terrible battery life to the point that they really weren't that portable. The Game Boy/Game Boy Color was also much affordable and durable then all the other handhelds that competed against it.

True, mobile technology and miniaturization wasn't really at the point yet where they could make it work in color and especially with a back-lit screen without taxing the hardware too much and thus draining the batteries in a very short amount of time. Which is also partly due to the batteries themselves, those you can buy today are quite a bit more powerful than the AA's you could get back in the day.

That being said, apart from their power draw, they were already pretty great gaming devices. But the battery is also really what killed them.

Last edited by Bofferbrauer2 - on 19 March 2021