It seems to be applied much less often to those reviews and is generally reserved for the more ridiculous statements like "oscar worthy". It makes sense that the majority backlash would be directed towards outliers, but, I don't know, look at this review: "There are not enough words or pages on the internet to describe just how good The Last of Us is. All I am going to say is this: why waste time reading about The Last Of Us when you could be playing it." That's it. That's the review. Yet the Douglas Adams quote is brought out for the 7.5 review. I mean, c'mon. AAllxxjjnn

I would like to meet the editor who okayed that "wasting time reading" review, because that is a special kind of stupid.

This quote only seems to show up in the case of a negative review. Never seems to apply to hyperbole ridden 10/10s.

AAllxxjjnn

Please. Anyone who seriously uses the term "Citizen Kane of gaming" is obviously offering an opinion that is robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic. That's just common sense.

$150.

They didn't leave the room.

He didn't pay to have a nice chat about flowers or fashion or any other such nonsense.

There's no f***ing way he paid for anything other than sex.

Stop tap-dancing around that. Stop being deliberately obtuse.OrkHammer007

He may have thought that's what the transaction was, but that doesn't mean he was correct. 

If I had to guess I'd say they're probably both right -- MS is having yield issues, but it's not enough for them to actually go the downclocking route. CBOAT seems like he has a pretty stellar track record and it makes sense a chip as big as the Xbone's is causing problems, but it's pretty damn rare for MS PR to so directly and unequivocably comment on a rumour that hasn't even hit the mainstream gaming press. 

I'm calling bull**** on this simply because the person making the claim is seriously trying to suggest that Microsoft put the xbox one together after sony's playstation meeting in a hurry to catch up. That is just laughably obviously untrue. Great or god-awful, that box has clearly been in development for a long time.Ninja-Hippo

Yeah, I can buy that MS is having yield issues and is even considering something drastic to try and save a holiday 2013 launch, but the extra "MS was scrambling in response to the PS4" bits are just weird. If you're planning on a holiday 2013 launch you have to hit certain design milestones regardless of what the competition is doing, and even if they were way behind it's hard to square that away with the Xbone's significantly weaker GPU and wonky DDR3+eSRAM setup. 

This sounds very made up. 

The National- Boxer
LCD Soundsystem- Sound of Silver
Pixies- Doolittle
Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
Bill Callahan- Apocalypse

There's something fishy about this story.

It makes sense from the BoM side of things, but the question (particularly with the Xbone) has always been how big a profit/loss per unit MS and Sony would target. MS could be anywhere from $300-$500 depending on what their marketing department is telling them (i.e. sell it cheap and make the difference back on XBL vs. it's a premium product that can be sold at a premium price), and Sony is going to be under pressure to keep the price as high as they think gamers will stomach considering the company's less than stellar financials.

Also worth noting that MS is all-but-certainly going to push XBL-subscription subsidized SKUs again, so even if the MSRP is $400 most people are probably going to be picking them up for $200 (based on how they currently price the subsidized 360s). 

Old news, and Blow is (mostly) wrong. While he's technically correct that MS isn't going to have 300,000 physical servers set aside for Xbone users, that's kinda the point -- by using Azure (ie the cloud) they can scale capacity to meet demand. So long as those servers are able to meet demand the distinction between physical and virtual is irrelevant.