Oh god, the Nomad. I love how the picture has the Low Bat light on too, because that's always always the case. I have one, and the thing is a pretty-paperweight, honestly. It's huge. It's clunky. It's a battery whore. The only saving grace are the fact it is, in fact, a portable Genesis, and you can hook it up to your TV and play it as such with a 2P controller as well. It' was a novelty at best. Hence why I mentioned how Sega should make a *real* handheld and get back into the game.
As for why we gush about the Dreamcast, yes...we are fanboys/fangirls. The difference between this and other consoles though is that it performed very well for it's first year, and the other failures didn't. The Dreamcast, in my opinion, was not a failure. It was a flop. It did great for a period of time, then tanked due to poor decision making on Sega's part. It had it's high point, then sank down and sputtered for a bit before dying. The Sega CD, 32X, and Saturn never got to the high point the Dreamcast got to.