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Recently revealed prototype controllers for the original Xbox keep up the longstanding tradition of absolutely bonkers game-pad mock-ups. Seamus Blackley, one of the designers behind the original Xbox proposal in the late 90s through to the console's release in 2001, revealed the prototypes on his Twitter page (and picked up via Gamasutra), showing off designs that look markedly similar to the controller used by Sega's Dreamcast. They all feature housing units for what looks like a VMU - the memory card with its own LCD interface that the Dreamcast employed - and perhaps my favourite detail is how all sketches are accompanied by a character from Capcom's Power Stone, one of the Dreamcast's high-profile games.
Perhaps all that shouldn't come as a surprise - as Blackley later said, the Dreamcast was king at the time (even if history has diminished its impact), and Microsoft already had close ties with Sega.
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