It took almost 200 tries before Microsoft was satisfied with its Xbox One controller

Microsoft’s hardware team went through 200 controller designs for the Xbox One before the company was satisfied with the results.

Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox One console is the company’s vision for living room entertainment for the next half decade. Today at GigaOm’s Roadmap conference in San Francisco, Carl Ledbetter, who led the industrial design of the console, discussed how it came to fruition.