Yeah launch games of any sort will always be a little funky. We're also going to be talking about two consoles with multiple year life cycles with features not even available at launch. I kinda wonder how might performance on the games be adjusted after launch with day one patches and such.
There is always going to be a spread of opinions and review scores and I don't normally subscribe to conspiracy theories and such. But I give the Polygon website a wide berth or avoid it entirely.
A good portion of the gaming community accuse it of being way too friendly with Microsoft (on the record as taking cash from them) or just being down right incompetent. Their reviews tend be the furthest negative outliers on Sony exclusive games (The Last of Us, Ni No Kuni, Dragon's Crown) that consistently scored very highly everywhere else.
And really, I have a hard time believing any website that scored the recent SimCity as a 9.5. It was universally mocked and rightly called out as blatant shenanigans - so they subsequently revised it down to a 8.0, and then revised it again to a 4.0 and finally revised it for a FOURTH time to 6.5
At best, they seem to be click-bait a lot of time.
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