From PCGamer: “The Duke was the nickname of the very first Xbox controller. It was infamous for its bulk, leading to it being named Blunder of the Year by Game Informer in 2001, the year the console was released. I took a huge amount of crap for the size of the controller back in the day, designer Seamus Blackley told Inside Xbox. People really didnt like it. I had things thrown at me on stage.”
Source: N4G PC What it's like playing PC games with the infamously massive Duke Xbox controller