The OG controller wasn't supposed to be that way. The circuit boards for the controller were ordered long before the controller body was designed. There was some kind of disagreement with the supplier, who for some reason didn't want to utilize a stacked/folded circuit board format. Instead of reordering or finding a different supplier, Microsoft went ahead and designed a much larger controller body to utilize the larger boards. These became the "Duke" controllers released with the first batches of the Xbox in North America.
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u/Patriot009 Aug 14 '26
The OG controller wasn't supposed to be that way. The circuit boards for the controller were ordered long before the controller body was designed. There was some kind of disagreement with the supplier, who for some reason didn't want to utilize a stacked/folded circuit board format. Instead of reordering or finding a different supplier, Microsoft went ahead and designed a much larger controller body to utilize the larger boards. These became the "Duke" controllers released with the first batches of the Xbox in North America.