Microsoft has always been a company that believes size matters. Compared to Sony, their consoles have always been big and bulky, and so too have their controllers. In fact, the very first Xbox controller released in 2001 was so big that many people found that they just couldn’t play games because they couldn’t reach the buttons.
But if you’ve got big hands and know what to do with them, you can wrap them around a 2001-style Xbox controller to play modern games.
It’s called the “Duke” after the original test model name that Microsoft’s engineers gave the controller. Officially licensed from Microsoft, Hyperkin has made the Duke as close to the original as possible, complete with 3.5mm headphone jack and honest-to-God LB and RB buttons in case your hands can’t actually reach the left and right bumpers.
There are some modern enhancements too, such as the 9-foot detachable USB cable and an animated Xbox button that plays a splash screen when you boot it up.
