Honestly, I think that people are mad about this review and people are defending the reviewer based on completely different things ...
When a movie is comming out to DVD/Blu-Ray a lot of people have an increased interest in reading reviews about the movie because they are debating buying or renting the movie, and many papers/magazines/websites publish reviews because of this. When people read these reviews they want to know whether the content of the movie was entertaining and worth their money, and they don't want to hear a movie reviewer complain about how their review copy was on DVD when Blu-Ray is such a superior format.
If you're doing a head-to-head between multiple versions of a game people will want to know how one version stacks up against another version in order to know which version they should buy if they have the choice; in a review that is focused on a particular version of a game (or an exclusive game) there is almost no reason to bring up another system.
The core problem with the review was the time the reviewer should have been writing about the customization of controls, and the online multiplayer was spent talking about things that have no place in a videogame review. Someone who is reading the review is probably someone who owns the system the game is for and is perfectly happy with their decision to buy the system; its a pretty big dick-move to write a review which (basically) talks down to them and implies that they're idiots for purchasing the system. The behavior of the reviewer would be very similar to having a reviewer talk about how the PS3 is really expensive and you don't get any value for it over buying an XBox 360, or about how the reviewer is always unsure of whether he will complete his review before the 360 red-rings.
