Diving headfirst into every negative sounding rumor, completely working ourselves into a frenzy will easily make it look like there's a 5 alarm fire over at MS HQ. It isn't hard to do, I've seen it many times before.
Aside from everything about you just seeming off, I can't peg you from being a poor excuse of an MS-sent sentinel to mitigate damage or just a fan boy that wants so hard to believe, but this line, specially, is the exact same thing you've done before. It's special pleading. You're completely ruling out obvious things, and trying to make points moot by writing them off as something it's not. The whole percentage shit. It's so insignificant that only a PR-representative would be hung up on it. The same thing with this. "I've seen it before"? "I always do this when I compare"? It's just special pleading. It's bullshit. EDIT: I mean, look at the monumental list of all the crap MS have managed to concoct with this box, and how there are no responses from MS from things that are damaging their reputation. It's because they're all true, and they know the less they say, the better. When you look at that, you should be able to see how massively out of sync you are with the desert of the real itself.
There are nothing but negative rumors about MS. That has nothing to do with what people WANT to believe or what people jump on. It's how it is. MS are being smart by shutting up about bad news as long as they can. We're practically waiting for the Friday they can drop all the crap on us, and then give us the weekend to look at some pretty games.
I'd just feel a bit annoyed if it turned out you were just a fanboy that so desperately wants this box not to fail, but at the same time, it comes across as exactly the same type of sleazy tactics MS have been deploying so far. Everything about their reveal was phoney, from the applause, to the UI, to the kinect, to their words, to their implementations and their "new AI". The fact that I can't distinguish a fanboy from an MS sentry is quite sad, really.