You were right to put "DRM" in quotes. That is some serious reaching there.

Third party controllers are terrible. I fell for that crap last gen. 

Even if I was hardware inclined, I serisouly doubt that simply swapping boards would work. 

Shhh, everyone knows controllers are digital.

OT: Clickbait title

Why in the hell would i want to use an Xbox controller on my PS?

I guess blu-ray discs are digital as well.

Sony u symbol of Evil :@
And thank u op for enlightening us on the meaning of DRM and what dirty Sony is doing! now i wish i could change my username :-/

But DRM isn't for the Blu-ray disc itself. It's for the game on it, which is indeed digital.

BTW DRM means Digital Rights Management.

I've been gaming since I was seven years old with Nintendo. I'd never understood this obsession with controllers. I've played every single console that's come out since the Nintendo (my cousin somehow got them all) and not once did we ever say "man these controllers suck". Sega Saturn, 3DO, Neo Geo, N64, PSX, etc. It wasn't until last gen that I started seeing these complaints about controllers it's real weird to me.

FTFY

OT: That's not DRM, you can't plug-and-play controllers into consoles, if so game devs would have a hard time mapping controls, feedback, sensitivity, etc.

There are bound to be third-party controllers down the road designed for the PS4.

I hated the N64 controller passionately.  Despised the damn thing.  First controller I ever actually had any real opinion on.