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Fun trivia about the Xbox controller is that their design is heavily influenced by Sega's. The Xbox controller has the same face button layout as the Dreamcast's. And if you compare the Duke (original fat) controller to a Saturn/Genesis/Mega Drive 6-button controller, you can think of those black and white buttons as the former C and Z buttons.
Some consider the OG Xbox as a successor to the Dreamcast.
Might be possible that they were using dreamcast controllers during initial development:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)#Creation_and_development
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_(console)#Initial_announcement_and_content_acquisitions
https://web.archive.org/web/20170825063139/http://kotaku.com/5447897/how-xbox-could-have-helped-the-dreamcast-survive
We especially said that when Xbox got Shenmue 2 in the states