“Vaporware is a term used to describe a product…that has been announced by a developer during or before its development and, therefore, may never actually be released. The term is usually applied to products which fail to emerge after having well-exceeded the period of development time that was initially claimed or would normally be expected for the development cycle of a similar product.”

They didn’t even need to update it for Natal. Because M$ invented this trick; it’s as old as Cairo – literally.

“”What we wanted to do was — it’s important technology that we’ve been working on some time and we’re not ready to announce the release date or other specifics on that other than what we’re going to be bringing to market is controller free gaming and we’ve got some tech specs announced — such as depth camera, RGB camera, array microphone [and there's] custom silicon inside there,” [Microsoft gaming executive and corporate VP John Schappert] said.

So you hold a huge kick off for a product with celebrity and athlete endorsements, an appearance on late-night TV and you don’t have a release date? Name me one piece of consumer electronics that has done that in the last 5 years (besides one poofed from the con artists in Redmond).