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Explore Wikis Community Central. Join thousands of tech enthusiasts and participate. TechSpot Account Sign up for free , it takes 30 seconds. Already have an account? Login now. Jonathan "Seamus" Blackley, one of the co-creators of the original Xbox, posted up the comment over on Twitter. Gamespot managed to compile a list of Blackley's succeeding comments where he further explained exactly what the inspiration was for the OG Xbox controller beyond that massive shell, detailing in a number of tweets that there was actually a lot of influence from Sega's bulky Dreamcast controller According to Blackley, he had wanted to shrink the design of the controller, nicknamed "The Duke", but he didn't have the clout at the time to work that change through Microsoft's bureaucracy.

He explained that some of the decisions were let through because being in a role of leadership meant giving up something in one area in order to get what you wanted in another. One of the interesting things mentioned in the Gamespot piece is that Blackley states that the focus group testing on the controller and the way it felt to the average gamer was ignored by Microsoft. Shocker, I know. The controller was an absolute pain to use due to the fact that the layout of the buttons was all wrong as far as spacing was concerned.

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