IKEA and Xbox Built a Nine-Piece Gaming Range That Does Not Look Like Gaming Furniture
IKEA and Xbox have revealed YXSTABY, a nine-piece collection built around a question most gaming furniture never asks: what does this look like when nobody is playing?
The collaboration paired one designer from each company on every single piece. Xbox brought 25 years of watching how people play. IKEA brought over 80 years of life-at-home research, and both teams visited homes where gaming is part of the daily routine rather than an event.
What is in the nine-piece range
The TV stand is the first of its kind IKEA has developed. It rolls to wherever play is happening, carries the gear in storage at the back, and rolls away again afterwards.
The toolbox is the one we would buy first. It holds controllers, cables and hardware together, and its lid closes over the contents and doubles as a laptop stand — so the dining table becomes a place to play and then goes back to being a dining table.
The side table rolls to where you actually sit and gives controllers somewhere to live other than the arm of the sofa, with charging space behind sliding doors. The monitor stand raises one or two screens to a sensible height, with storage underneath and holders for a phone, headphones and a controller. The lounge chair was designed to support different positions and moods of play, and to hold the gear out of sight when the session ends.
No RGB, no racing seats
The design language is straight lines and softer shapes in muted white, black and beige, familiar Scandinavian simplicity: with green used only to guide the eye to the pockets, slings and compartments that hold gaming gear.
“How people play at home has shifted, and it is as much about relaxing and connecting with others as it is about performing, which changes what the space has to do,” says Philip Dilé, Product Design Developer at IKEA of Sweden. “Together, we set out to make furniture people really want in their home, not furniture they accept because it is what you need to game.”
Carl Ledbetter, Head of Design at Xbox, put the same idea from the other side: working with IKEA gave the team “the opportunity to design for the entire gaming experience at home.”
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Prices and ANZ availability not announced
Here at ShaneTheGamer we have sat in enough bucket-seat gaming chairs to have a view on this, and it is not a warm one. The category has spent fifteen years selling furniture that announces itself, perforated fake leather, a spoiler on the headrest, a logo where your kidneys go: to people who then have to live with it in a room other adults also use.
YXSTABY is aimed squarely at the person who wants the second thing. Whether the execution lands depends on prices and on whether Australia and New Zealand get the full nine pieces or a trimmed selection, and IKEA has not said yet. We have asked, and we are lining up an interview with the design team.
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