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<Semi-portable.
<Full Genesis library.
<AV output so you could use it as an actual console.
<2nd controller port so you could plug in a real Genesis controller for two player action.
<Awesome D-pad.
<After the initial high launch price Sega slashed the price to $79 just months later....making it cheaper than a non-portable Genesis and yet people kept buying the normal Genesis in decent amounts for years where as the Nomad tanked.


Were we all just caught up in PS1 and Saturn hype or did Sega do that bad of a job marketing it as a legit Genesis console replacement?

>> No.4164193

You forgot
<30 minutes battery life

>> No.4164194

>>4164167
It was yet another expensive piece of hardware that took away resources that Sega should have focused on Saturn. Their ecosystem was way too fucking crowded at the time, with Genesis, Game Gear, Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn.

>> No.4164217

>>4164194
But it wasn't expensive for Sega. They already had a portable Genesis with no screen, the Nomad was probably easy as hell for them to create. And no one looking at a Saturn would have been confused by the Nomad. It's like saying the Gameboy distracted from Nintendo's main consoles.

>> No.4164236

>>4164217

Who is it targeted at? It takes Genesis games, so you might aswell just get a regular Genesis. It was barely portable, and the sound quality is abysmal. The Game Gear was actually portable and had its own unique games. Nomad is a total gimmick with no place in the market.

>> No.4164246

>>4164217
That's not how hardware R&D works. They still needed to consolidate and downsize the Genesis PCB, add a high-res (for the time) LCD, etc. None of that is cheap, particularly when there is absolutely no market demand for it.

>> No.4164253 [DELETED] 

>>4164236
It's targeted at retards ie your average Sega fan.

>> No.4164260

>>4164253
I want summerfags to leave

>> No.4164262 [DELETED] 

>>4164260
I want you to die, but unfortunately we can't all get what we want.

>> No.4164305

>>4164236
Why would you get this over a Genesis if you didn't already have one? It WAS a Genesis only cheaper (after the initial launch price) plus portable. Nomad's were $79 at the time Genesis 2's were being sold for $89. And it's sound output is considered to be barely under the original Model 1 and superior to the shit versions of the Model 2.

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>>4164167
I love mine, but this guy is kind of right.>>4164194

>> No.4164321

>>4164305
Nomad owner here, it's cool for portable play but the system is pretty bulky. If I was playing on a TV I would always prefer a regular Genesis controller.

I don't think you could hook up the controller so it acted like controller #1 for games. I never actually hooked mine up to a TV since I already had a regular Genesis and like the way the games look on the tiny screen better already anyways.

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4164373

Greatest Handheld Ever

>> No.4164382

>>4164167
>>4164193
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Uuuuuuuummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>> No.4164405

>>4164167
>Full Genesis library
Top kek.

>> No.4164427

>>4164373
You definitely can't play 32x games on a nomad, right? But maybe it would work if you connected the 32x's video output to a TV.

>> No.4164458

>>4164167
A kid in my class had one of those, and he'd pull it out to show off to us Gameboy kids, we honestly had no idea what it even was. So yeah I'd say the marketing sucked. It took me years later to even find a name for it.

>He also rarely played it, I assumed it was apart of him trying to mysterious and popular. Turns out it was battery life. The basterd took like 6 AAs.

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>>4164167
Nomad is pretty cool, but it really needs LCD and battery mods to reach its full potential today.

>> No.4164990

>>4164167
The PSP literally replaces the Sega Nomad.

>> No.4165551

>>4164990
Meh. Picodrive still has issues with the sound emulation and v-sync is slow.

>> No.4165570

>>4164193
^^^ this this this ^^^
I bought one as a kid(my first handheld) and couldn't afford on what little money I had to keep playing it away from a power outlet.

>> No.4165638

>>4165551
I own a Nomad and now only ever pull it out for novelty purposes. 95% of the time I use a psp to play Genesis portable.

>> No.4165760

>>4165551
Does the Nomad support the game genie? The Picodrive does, though it's a bit primitive on how to use it.

>> No.4165781

>>4164167
You forgot
>expensive as fuck
>no battery life
>only came out in the most irrelevant market (America)

>> No.4167030

Thinking of getting a genesis and a dreamcast. Not sure what I'll get first.

Sega!!

>> No.4167043

>>4165781
>North America
>Irrelevant

>> No.4167089

>>4164236
The sound quality is actually amazing running through AV. It's one of the best sounding Genesis units.

>> No.4167103

>>4164262
Ohhh, Sega bitch got BTFO.

Even Sega fans are failures.

>> No.4167159

>>4167103
>BTFO
What are you? 12? Grow up.

>> No.4167175

Tell me about LCD mods. What's the native resolution of the original screen? The replacement screen I last read about had some built in upscaler, which I want nothing to do with.