Vaporware: Is It All Computer Hardware And Games?
from the interesting... dept
Once again, Wired News has come out with their famed vaporware awards that are always worth checking out. There are a few repeats on there, of course. Infinium Labs' Phantom gaming console -- which we thought was dead, but just keeps on getting back up again -- comes in at number one. Still, the overall list seems to fit pretty closely into two categories: video gaming stuff and computer hardware stuff that will let you play games faster. You get the sense that video gamers are the ones doing most of the voting?
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There's that, plus the fact that the gaming market is relentlessly hyped, so that even the games that do reach market almost always seem a little underwhelming. Wired's vaporware awards are one symptom of the cynical backlash that marketing has created among those consumers.
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