8th Annual Vaporware Of The Year Awards Out

8 Jan, 2005 at 1:32pm ET Article published in Tech

It is that time of the year folks, Wired magazine has put out its 8th annual Vaporware list and names like 3DRealms, Alienware, Intel and ATi all had products that made the list this year.

Now in its eighth year, Wired News’ annual Vaporware Awards celebrate all the wonderful gewgaws of 2004 that sadly never saw the light of day. And 2004 was a very good year for vaporware. A vintage year, indeed.

Not only were there plenty of vaporous products floating about — several companies are fast heading for the hallowed halls of vaporware fame.

Companies like Valve, TiVo and 3D Realms Entertainment have been nominated year after year, sometimes for the same elusive product, sometimes for different wares. But one thing doesn’t change: These tardy firms continue to over-promise and under-deliver.

Source: Wired

Comments

8 Jan 2005 ~ 1:53pm Shorty

Take 3D Realms, the (so-called) publisher of the long-awaited Duke Nukem Forever. After years of waiting, in 2003 we gave the company our Lifetime Achievement Award just to get it off the list.

ahahahaha lifetime achievement award for DNF ...
8 Jan 2005 ~ 1:57pm primesuspect DNF:

"NASA has planned, designed, developed and successfully landed a rover on Mars in the time this game has been in development," wrote reader Ray O'Neill. "So much for deadlines."

:Pwned:
8 Jan 2005 ~ 2:00pm Shorty

Steven "Harley" Davidson said, "If Microsoft keeps on pushing back the dates for Longhorn and removing features from it, they might as well just promise to bundle Duke Nukem Forever with the OS."

omg
9 Jan 2005 ~ 12:28am SimGuy

Infinium Labs' elusive games-on-demand console, the appropriately named Phantom, is climbing the Vaporware charts. Last year's No. 3 entry, the Phantom is this year's most vaporous product. Way to go, Infinium!

Vapourware put through its' paces. HardOCP: 2, Infinium: 0
10 Jan 2005 ~ 12:36pm Gobbles At the rate MS is going.. Long Horn will be the long awaited SP3 for XP...