IKEA and Xbox's YXSTABY gaming furniture is functional without being in your face
IKEA and Xbox have launched the YXSTABY collection, a series of nine gaming-inspired furniture pieces and accessories. The collection balances functional home design with subtle gaming aesthetics, including items like a D-pad controller platter and a lounge chair.
Why it matters
This collaboration represents a growing trend of lifestyle brands integrating gaming culture into mainstream home interior design.
Credit: IKEA > Tech IKEA's collaboration with Xbox is now live, offering nine new gaming-inspired furniture pieces and accessories. Called the YXSTABY collection, an IKEA spokesperson told Mashable the collaboration was named after a small locality in Sweden , which was chosen because it includes the four letters on the Xbox controller's buttons: X, Y, B, and A.
The YXSTABY collection was previously unveiled at Gamescom in August, showing off nine pieces co-designed by the teams at IKEA and Xbox. These range from an innocuous TV stand on castor wheels to a stool designed to look like a giant thumbstick from an Xbox controller . As such, there's a mix of products depending on how obvious you want the gaming references in your interior design choices to be.
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