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>calling the original xbox controller the "Duke"
when did this zoomer revisionism start? it was never referred to as the Duke back then. it was just the controller.

>> No.11501818

>>11501815
>when did this zoomer revisionism start?
when the xbox S controller came out

>> No.11501819

>convex stick
yike

>> No.11501823

Some also called it 'The Hamburger'

>> No.11501825

I've been calling it the Duke for almost as long as I remember the Xbox existing. It's a nickname that got picked up pretty quick once the Controller S came out like >>11501818 said.

>> No.11501831

>>11501819
It's concave right in the middle!

>> No.11501848

>>11501815
big meaty controller right there

>> No.11501861

>>11501815
The original Xbox was the beginning of the end.

>> No.11501881

>>11501815
They call it the Duke because it sounds masculine, you need big masculine hands to use this controller.

>> No.11501886

>>11501815
>it was never referred to as the Duke back then.
Well that is just completely, factually false. Lurk more.

>> No.11501903

Greatest controller ever made

>> No.11502294

>>11501815
I remember calling a bunch of K-Marts back in the day looking for this controller and it was just known as the "original xbox controller". (yes I ended up finding one, K-Mart always had all the old shit.)

>> No.11502369
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>>11501815
I'm trying to remember a game, think it was on the Xbox
Kart racer with cartoon animals, one of the characters was a duck, and they said swear words. Possibly with censor beeps.

>> No.11502380

>>11501881
It comes from John Wayne's nickname

>> No.11502386

>>11501815
The xbox-scene forum called it Duke since 2001.

>> No.11502391

It was short for "dookie" because it's a turd of a controller

>> No.11502410

>>11501815
It was unofficially called the Duke because that was the name of the designers son. Originally everyone just called it the "fatty" which I personally remember being the common name for it during the early 2000's while the Duke name seemed to get more common after the 360 came out.

>> No.11502424

>>11502380
Who happens to be a masculine dude.

>> No.11502461

>>11501886
you mean "grow older by moving your birthday backwards"

>> No.11502530

>>11502369
Cel Damage?

>> No.11502535

>>11502391
You have the hands of a child lmao

>> No.11502573

>>11501815
31 here and late to the xbox's launch though i still got it in its generation, the Duke basically became the term as soon as the smaller controller became the standard, sort of a status thing about its "absurdly big" size. I remember watching TechTV/G4 and the Duke was being used there too.

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It kind of feels like being up in a saddle, did anyone use it with Gun?

>> No.11502750

>>11502615
The fuck you talking about boy?

>> No.11502902

>>11502535
Fat fingers typed this post

>> No.11502917

>>11502902
t. nip hands
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The Duke was good I have no complains about it but S is comfy, both are great controllers that mogs dualshock 2 hard

>> No.11503035
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>>11501815
They copied then expanded on the design of the Dreamcast controller.

>> No.11503039

>>11503035
It's nothing like the Dreamcast controller and everyone who parrots this is just revealing they're dumb zoomers who never used either

>> No.11503058

>>11501815
We called it the DC, since it looked like the Dreamcast's controller.
Also called it "Fats McGee".

>> No.11503237

>>11502530
Yeah that's it! Thanks

>> No.11503327

>>11503039
Nigga Microsoft was literally planning to integrate sega net to XBL and have the xbox backwards compatible with DC games until they found out it was too expensive for a system no one bought. The Xbox may not have been the Dreamcast 2 but it sure as shit tried to be.

>> No.11503368

>>11503327
source? voices in your head or some video essay?

>> No.11503376

>>11503327
Absolutely nothing you said has anything to do with the controllers being similar and is just more things you've heard youtube historians say and are now parroting.

>> No.11503458

>>11503327
>Dreamcast 2
The only reason anyone says this dumb shit is because Shenmue 2 was released on Xbox.

>> No.11503510

>>11503458
Educate yourself, boomer
https://youtu.be/7loxgR4F-qQ?si=qTM2qNolqlLwUC1F

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>> No.11503664

>>11501815
sure it was
it was named after that one guy who helped design the xbox
a lotta people knew that

>> No.11503668
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>>11503035
The xbox controller is actually a descendent of microsoft's sidewinder controllers, which were knockoffs of the genesis six-button controller.

>> No.11503815

>>11503368
>>11503376
>hurr durr video essay scary youtube boogeyman
You fuckin retards need to commit sudoku.
https://web.archive.org/web/20170825063139/http://kotaku.com/5447897/how-xbox-could-have-helped-the-dreamcast-survive

>> No.11504130

>>11503458
>every sega game on the xbox
except, you know...a sonic game. sonic heroes was trash and doesn't count.

>> No.11504478

>>11501815
I called it the big controller

>> No.11504507

>>11501815
i really love that big fat fucking useless plastic badge in the middle that makes me feel like i'm handling a fischer's price toy

>> No.11505718
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>>11503668
>that d-pad

>> No.11506193

>>11505718
It feels a lot better than it looks buttons feel like shit tho.

>> No.11506196

>>11501815
Who cares? You guys get upset over stupid shit.

>> No.11506246

>>11502424
lol sure, buddy...

>> No.11506295

>>11503458
We call it Dreamcast 2 because it replaced Sega in the console war against Sony and Nintendo, because it had a marketing very much alike Sega did 10 years prior, and because it had the most Sega originals of the generation. If Sega could afford to, the Xbox is exactly the type of console they would have released.

It also had the internet connectivity that the Dreamcast pioneered, and prior to that, they tried before with the Saturn Netlink, and even further prior the Sega Channel. Plus the Dreamcast had that huge Windows CE logo on its side, and they were in talks with Microsoft with making the Xbox compatible with the Dreamcast (which fell through because it would have made the console cost too much).

>>11504130
Sonic is for children, so it got pushed for the Nintendo consoles along with Billy Hatcher and Monkey Ball. Virtua Fighter 4 and Sakura Taisen was pushed for the PS2 because those games are only popular in Japan and Xbox didn't sell at all in Japan. Nearly every other major Sega title was for the Xbox, including some which got ported directly from the Dreamcast (Shenmue 2, Rent-a-Hero, Toejam & Earl 3) or were sequels to DC games (Crazy Taxi III, Jet Set Radio Future).

Xbox was the Dreamcast 2, no matter what you dumb zoomers say.

>> No.11506323

>>11501815
I never had an XBox, but I remember that nickname going around plenty online in the late 2000s or early 2010s or so, long before zoomers were online in any appreciable capacity.

>>11502386
Well there you go, the name was going around before most zoomers were even born.
Get your head checked for Alzheimers, OP, optionally check for it you had a stroke.

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>>11506295
>the console war against Sony and Nintendo,

>> No.11506331

>>11506295
With that 2 and a half year lifespan given twas truly teh dc2

>> No.11506337

>>11506295
>It also had the internet connectivity that the Dreamcast pioneered, and prior to that, they tried before with the Saturn Netlink, and even further prior the Sega Channel.
Sega wasn't even first with internet connectivity on consolss, Nintendo did a moden with the Famicom, which didn't sell all that well, and before Famicom even there were some attempts at online console shit by companies like Coleco, which didn't do much better (the technology wasn't really there by then).

The first console online which worked out well (very relatively speaking) is probably the X-Band modems, which were around for a few years. Sega would however dramatically outdo X-Band with the Dreamcast's own online.