There's nothing wrong with asking. Had he "demanded" special treatment, well that's something else.
My guess is he feels that the online component/general appeal are going to be very big features and was trying to avoid the scores being lower due to the online piece being missing in initial reviews.
From reading a lot of the posts in this thread, I think it's fairly obvious that a lot of people, particularly those who don't like the 360, just want to grab on anything that can be attacked, no matter how small or insignificant. To those who get their shorts in a bunch when someone else looks for every negative aspect of a product, I say just ignore them. They're going to attack anything related to the 360, no matter what it is. Life is too short to let those people get me down.
EDIT: added the general appeal part of this.
