Microsoft should really learn to listen to their fans. But since they obviously don't want to, I'm not sad that they've pretty much guaranteed a huge loss. They can't seem to let go of a bad idea and they'll take it to their grave on this one I guess. I just don't get why they're so desperately marrying this DRM idea

Nobody's buying the idea that this is the publishers forcing their hand. Publishers will want their games on consoles so they can make money. Microsoft could just as easily be like "We don't want to do this, so do you want to put your game on our console or not?" Sony's not doing this. Nintendo's not doing this. What's the publisher going to say? "No, we don't want to make money"?

Right now it's just Microsoft saying 'no we don't want to make money'.