why was the controller so big?
Because Xbox is made for men and Gaystation is for young boys
It was for MENBig American MEN
>>746070929Back then basketball players dictated black culture. And it worked too.
>>746070929So much wasted space just to have a giant logo in the middle. It's like Microsoft really thought their customers must be brain dead so they needed to remind them what console they were using at all times in big bold letters
>>746071187
>Microsoft orders circuit boards >Manufacturer of circuit boards makes them way too fucking big>Microsoft now has to design a controller around these oversized boards Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20180504150611/https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/23/xbox-controller-retrospective-hyperkin-duke-gamepad/
>>746070929I was a teenager when the big controller came out and I loved how it fit in my hands. Nintendo and Sony controllers always felt so small and uncomfortable to hold. I prefer my women small though, for many reasons.
>>746071276At least the Dreamcast one actually did something
>>746070929og xbox controller would have been the best if only the put the b w buttons on top
>>746070929LmaoLittle baby small hands
>>746070929Why the fuck does sony still use that shit controller design? Even nintendo went over to the xbox offset sticks layout.
>>746070929That's edited, no fucking way the ps2 controller is that much smaller. I've never seen a duke in person though
>>746070929Xbox had to hit the scene like a nuclear bomb, microsoft had shuttered their most beloved game series a few years earlier, and they didn't recover until the Xbox dropped with Halo. They brought out a huge slight variation on the sony dualshock controller, it was a downgrade technically but we hardly knew what sonys controllers could do anyway(did yall know the ps2 had pressure sensitive buttons? Everything but start select and analog had a throttle), and moved the bumpers to the black and white buttons, then they poached nintendos biggest third party dev, Rareware studios, who developed banjo khazooie, 007 goldeneye, perfect dark, DK64, conkers bad furr day, and other games that defined the n64, and they revolutionised the living fuck out of what FPS games looked like, with bullet projectiles, a suite of vehicles, awesome high def space super soldier armour, big bad ass aliens with green and blue goo guns, and a sound track you could storm the gates of hell to.Keep in mind this was the console you had never heard a single thing about, went to finally buy your ps2 or gamecube depending on who you were already loyal to, saw the Xbox demo display stand, and walked out with a fucking Xbox, with no regrets to the console you came in to buy. That was my family with the Gamecube we were gonna buy, i was bouncing off the walls when dad and older brother went to EB games to finally buy it, then they came home with an Xbox and i was pissed. We started opening the box and i stfu seeing the gear. Then we watched the boot sequence, and i fell in love before i even saw the game it came with. Halo.These guys went behind enemy lines and declared themself the new biggest dick in town the same day they entered the console wars, and it fucking worked desu, they instantly knocked the GC off the face of the war and became sonys main opposition.
>>746070929More comfortable and gave it a better visual identity, asserted your masculiniyt, etc. Same logic as the Gamecube controller and the Wii U gamepad.Modern Xbox controllers are basically a low-t fag version of a Gamecube controller and way less enjoyable to use than the Duke was.
>>746072571>These guys went behind enemy lines and declared themself the new biggest dick in town the same day they entered the console wars, and it fucking worked desu, they instantly knocked the GC off the face of the war and became sonys main opposition.>The console that represents a 5-7 billion dollar financial anal gaping for Microsoft.Holy mother of cope.
>>746071187Counter-point: it looks nice
>>746070929Because the original Xbox is the Sega Dreamcast 2.
>>746070929X BAWK HUEG is optimal form factor
xbox hueg lol
>>746071276saturn 3d pad my beloved
>>746071030>>746071049We joke about this, but the answer really is they tested on American Men, and we're bigger and stronger than others.
>>746071187>wasted spacewhat do you mean?
>>746070929America.
>>746070929It's hilarious that zoomers are too small now to play with the XBOX 1 controller
>>746073730Your close. It's actually that they ran tests and it turns out American men are obsessed with things that are BIG and BLACK
>>746071276>worse stick>worse d-pad>less buttonsIt's crazy how the Dreamcast controller is a complete downgrade from the Saturn's 3D Control Pad in practically every way
>>746071030BASED
>>746070929One was made for preteen asian children, one was made tall overweight american teenagers
>>746073856What's actually crazy is how we still don't have any company trying to do reproduction clones. At least the 2D pad has an awesome 8bitdo reincarnation, where the fuck is the 3D pad and its awesome optical stick?
>>746073765Anon, that's not the og xbox controller, that's a third party controller released like, half a decade ago.
>>746072837>Acting like Xbox wasnt an enormous financial success with funny numbers cause of the loss leading strategy that made the next generation the best in history at an affordable entry pointNot even profoundly retarded, this is just straight retard shit.
>>746073958>optical stickThat's the N64 controllerThe 3D pad has a Hall effect stick
>American company>big chunky controller and system for big chunky Western userbase
>>746074006
>>746074116Can you and I have sex?
>>746070929There was a long period of time when people had no fucking idea what they were doing with controllers. Remember, the OG Xbox was only 5 years after this monstrosity ,which itself was only an arguable improvement over the NES, which was a literal rectangle.Still, I for some reason actually liked the gigantic Xbrick controller. I can't say why. It was hefty, I guess.
>>746070929Fakeshoop
>>746074112Bro they're very open about the fact that they lost money massively on the Xbox, not just "loss leading", it was a failure outright even with Halo. The 360 was them using their massive microsoft moneypit to say "okay we learned some things, let's try not to fuck up this time but if it flops again we quit."
>>746070929Big American dick bitch
>>746073765
>>746074379The xbox 360 is still an xbox console you fucking retard. Who else managed to join the race anything remotely like this? Look at what it's taken valve to get a console off the ground. Mega retard shit if you think the OG Xbox was a failure. Xbox lept so the 360 could soar.
OG xbox fucking rocked, I never knew the controller was hueg because my older brother had a saturn lolAll the true gamers love the black and white buttons
>>746074270>dares to slander the legendary goated three handed controller
>>746074006Hyperkin got the OG molds from Xbox, it's the same controller but with a useless LCD button screen, two added extra shoulder buttons and better triggers. Microsoft stilled jewed them out of their wireless functionality
>>746074613Microsoft even fucking admits the OG Xbox failed, you fucking retard, it left them like 7 billion in the hole.They killed it to replace it with the 360 as a "one last shot" scenario.
>>746073629
>>746074940Are you actually a retard, or are you joking? The value that console built into the brand name "xbox" wow the checks the 360 was cashing. No xbox, no one gives a fuck about the 360, it would have been outsold by the wii u.
>>746075091my fucking nigga mayne
>>746075563Its funny you mention that because the Wii U made more money than the original Xbox.
>>746075619If you werent a retard you'd know we were comparing it the 360
>>746075913I mean, I sure as fuck wasn't. my entire thing has been pointing out that the Xbox was a catastrophic failure that would have begged to suck the Gamecube or PS2's dicks with how much money it lost. It lost so fucking badly that the whole reason the 360 exists is specifically because they felt the Xbox was such a titanic failure that it had to have been a problem with how they handled it and decided to try again. It's unironically a real life example of what some fags think the Switch is, IE a do over.
>>746075619Money was worth almost twice the value for the og xbox retard
>>746077741And the Xbox none the less left them in the negatives to the point that Halo couldn't dig them out, while the Wii U just under performed but still turned a profit.
>>746077827I'd say at least 90% of my generation interacted with an xbox in some way, be it a gift or just at a friend's house. I'd guess maybe 20% of those people ever even saw a Wii U in person, or even heard of one.
>>746078156Yeah and that's a great anecdote, I had an Xbox myself, all my friends played it, none of them bought it.And I can back that up because, again, the Xbox is one of the biggest financial failures in console history. it didn't sell enough games to make up the cost of production, development, shipping, and advertising, not even close.That's just like, fucking objectively true. Meanwhile the Wii U still turned an actual profit.
>>746078483Your mom's pussy is so tight it stopped your airway as soon as your neck emerged. You survived the operation but you suffered severe brain damage and your mom's pussy is the same orface as her asshole.
>>746070929Huge American penis, huge American controller.Small asian/ european penis, small Asian/ european controller.>>746072837How is that cope? Xbox into 360 was a huge embarrassment for the nips.
>>746070929For chud hands or something, seriously, a Washington lobbyist said to me that najority of the OG Xbox owners are republicans
>>746073730I can see the duke absolutely snapping limpwristed European arms and underdeveloped asian hands.I know I broke several of my Nintendo and PS controllers simply by holding them. When XB came out I felt like I was finally home.
Eh, fit in my 9yo hands. Yes I am an American, yes I do love cheeseburgers.
>>746070929>Be average Americans hands
