Variety assigns its own scores to games and passes them along to Metacritic, just like certain other entities that publish text-only reviews in their own format but want to get picked up by an aggregator. Known quantity people. Not a newsworthy story. Whoever decided without so much as an email inquiry's worth of research that Metacritic was assigning those scores is just another headline-schlepping imbecile.
Why turn this into a media conspiracy about fanboy console wars? Maybe it's just what it seems to be, someone presenting an alternative and by no means dogmatic opinion about the camera.
Variety assigns its own scores to games and passes them along to Metacritic, just like certain other entities that publish text-only reviews in their own format but want to get picked up by an aggregator. Known quantity people. Not a newsworthy story. Whoever decided without so much as an email inquiry's worth of research that Metacritic was assigning those scores is just another headline-schlepping imbecile.