To be fair, Spore was overhyped - it was fun enough, but not the total gamechanger that it was forecast to be. Will Wright had two amazing strikes with Sim City and then the Sims, and then a whole pile of very middle-of-the-road simulation games, so it wasn't that hard to foresee.
And EEE PCs occupied the uncomfortable niche where they didn't do a lot that your phone couldn't, while being extremely limited compared to a £300 'proper' cheapo laptop. That's not really a business model.
So yeah, that's two things that anyone could have seen coming, versus eight where they're so massively completely wrong they couldn't have failed harder if they tried. Would have been better to call this list 'things which are not massively overhyped', they'd have done better.
Anomander