There's nothing wrong with allowing publishers to implement DRM at their choosing, it's their IP and they can protect it how they see fit. That's something that is present even on PC. And people can still vote with their wallets and not buy that publisher's games if the DRM is too extreme for them. There's no fault to the hardware makers for that whatsoever.
The problem arises if everyone is forced into the DRM scheme on a hardware-wide level, just like region locking on the hardware-wide level. There are publishers who do not care, and publishers who oppose oppressive DRM measures, and they should not be forced into it.
Honestly I thought the online pass scheme was a fair system...








