If you are among the most nostalgic of the era of "black monolith" from Microsoft, the first revolutionary Xbox, you have probably followed closely news on the arrival of a replica of the original "Duke" controller console, adapted of course to Xbox One.

If so, you'll be pleased to know that the new Duke finally has a date and a price, at least in the USA: the accessory will come indeed in late March at the price of $69.99 , whereas now there are no known European deployment plans. To make the announcement was Seamus Blackley, father of the first Xbox and promoter of this project, carried out by the manufacturer of accessories Hyperkin.

Please note that the new controller , wired (not wireless) and implemented officially licensed Xbox, faithfully reproduce the appearance and the generous size of the original one, with lots of buttons and white over the top four buttons fronts, adding also two shoulder buttons on the triggers and an intriguing LCD screen instead of the Central logo, on which we can see animate the boot sequence of the first Xbox:

We will update when we know more about the selling of the controller: stay tuned!