The Duke returns? Xbox One could get the original Xbox’s gargantuan controller

When future civilizations look back to try to figure out what event led to the extinction of modern humans, they will have to consider the possibility that an original Xbox controller fell to Earth like an asteroid.

That’s right, it’s time to start joking again about the 2001 Xbox’s original controller. That gamepad, which many affectionately call “Duke,” was enormous and was eventually replaced by Microsoft with a smaller revision. But Duke could make a return if Xbox architect Seamus Blackley has his way. Blackley has teased the possibility of working with Microsoft, where he no longer works, and current Xbox boss Phil Spencer to introduce an Xbox One-compatible Duke controller. Now, Blackley says that he is doing “actual work” to see if that’s possible.