Sure polygon is entitles to an opinion even when it's wrong but can't hide behind just an opinion excuse. Still wrong.
I don't care about scores as I always feel numerical scores are stupid but that's a whole other issue.
But they arent hiding behind it.
Where they ARE hiding, is the fact that gtav had it way, WAY worse, they talked about how bad it was, and then. DID. NOTHING, because of publisher leverage from a giant AAAAAAAA conglomerate they did not reduce the score because of publisher leverage, they did here, because using that leverage is just something Nintendo does not do.
Lowering a review score because of your opinion on something subjective isnt a problem, even if you disagree with the opinion. Its not a problem. All reviews are, are opinions. They are literally opinions.
Lowering the score because you failed something factual, like understanding how the game works is NOT ok, because that is not something subjective.
However, giving out HIGH scores automatically CONTRARY to what is clearly their opinion, because of publisher leverage, and in essence LYING about said opinion and product in favor of AAAAAA Publisher strongarming, is ACTUAL corruption. And that is NOT OK.