A financial failure, the Pocket Color has since been talked about as one of the most influential handheld consoles ever released. Two years before the Advance was released, SNK released the Neo Geo Pocket Color, their last console before going bankrupt in 2001.
Releasing in 2001 and selling over 80 million units, it was clear that most of the gaming audience considered Nintendo to be the go-to company for handheld gaming.Ī lot of major competition was backing out at this time, but SNK was going ahead with its own handhelds: The Neo Geo Pocket line of consoles. The Game Boy Advance finally solidified Nintendo's dominance.
Ultimately, the Nomad was not the success that it deserved to be.Īll of the previous Game Boy revisions showed just how much power Nintendo was continuing to gain over the handheld market. On top of that, the Nomad only added to Sega's console support woes. It was also a massive handheld, only barely fitting into the average person's pocket. Given the amount of power the Nomad needed, it required a whopping six AA batteries for about two to three hours of game time. However, it did come with disadvantages as well. At the time, this was a revolutionary concept and the system ran its games very well. The Sega Nomad allowed the player to experience full home console Sega Genesis games on the go. In fact, a full three years before the Game Boy Color's release, Sega released another handheld console with an extremely unique selling point. However, this did not mean that there was no competition. With the Game Boy able to display full color, Nintendo's grip of the handheld market got even tighter.
In 1998, Nintendo released the Game Boy Color, fixing the biggest criticism of the previous iterations of the Game Boy. Though the Game Gear was far from a financial failure, it never got close to reaching the sales numbers of the Game Boy, especially after its many iterations hit the market. On top of that, Sega was also deep in development for the upcoming Sega Saturn which would launch just a few years later. RELATED: 10 Great Dreamcast Games That Are Still Exclusive To The System Not only did they have the Genesis to work with, but they also had the Sega CD and the 32X, peripherals for the Genesis that each got their own exclusive titles. Unfortunately, the Game Gear had a rough time, as Sega had a hard time properly supporting the system. Releasing just one year after the Game Boy, the the Sega Game Gear was more powerful than Nintendo's handheld, sporting about as much power as the Sega Master System (and the NES for that matter) and able to display thousands of colors, far more than what the Game Boy was providing at the time. The release of the Game Boy in 1989 was when competition for the handheld market really got underway, and it wouldn't be long until rival Sega stepped in.
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