They didn't take that many points off.
And it is touted as being a multiplayer game.
I'm not taking points off for not having online. I think there are plenty of games that do well enough without online (MGS4 probably should take a penalty for it's online lol).
It's just MP and online are like best friends. A solid MP game should have both local and online, or be docked some percentage.
You guys make a very good argument that it simply could not be done, but a lot of games have lag and people deal with it.
Although, in my world, games are rated based on what is available on the specific system. In this case, NSMBW would be somewhat higher than the score that it got. It's just that it's being compared to all other games out there, not against it's own ceiling.
