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IKEA and Xbox Unveil YXSTABY Gaming Furniture Collection for October Launch

IKEA and Xbox have collaborated on YXSTABY, a nine-piece gaming furniture line launching in October. It mixes practical storage, cable management and charging with playful items such as a thumbstick stool and D-pad cushion, according to TechRadar.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-17 06:45

Philip Dilé, product developer for IKEA of Sweden, told TechRadar that the collaboration aimed to balance playful gaming culture with practical home furnishing. 'Playing games is playful; it is fun. Solving people's needs connected to that can be very functional and practical. We tried to balance that, for sure,' he said. He added that the products should be relevant to people who play games while also being beautiful pieces of furniture.

Carl Ledbetter, partner head of design at Xbox, said the collection follows a similar philosophy to console design. Gamers can let products recede into their environment or pull them forward to be expressive, he told TechRadar. He cited the controller display box as suited to enthusiast gamers who collect controllers and the TV stand as having a 'dual life' for watching shows and movies or for intense gaming sessions.

The more practical items address common complaints about gaming setups. The side table can look like minimalist IKEA furniture when closed, but sliding doors reveal storage for controllers, headsets and battery packs, along with cable management and power connectivity. The TV stand provides space for a console, controller charging and a headset. Ledbetter said cable management and charging repeatedly came up, because people do not want equipment spread around. Dilé described cable management as 'one never-ending challenge' for IKEA and a very real frustration for people.

Dilé said the design team considered gaming throughout the home, including at desks, in living rooms and on couches. He said working with Xbox helped clarify the brief because Xbox knows gaming hardware and players. At the same time, both teams wanted products acceptable to non-gamers and people living with gamers, avoiding RGB lighting and garish colors. Dilé said the aim was to create items that a spouse or housemate would also want in the home, rather than objects tolerated only because of a hobby.

Ledbetter recalled the first meeting between the two parties, where they found similar design philosophies and wanted their design teams to exchange ideas. The YXSTABY collection is the result: nine products spanning stools, seats, cushions, TV stands, storage and display cases, scheduled for launch in October later this year.