IKEA and Xbox have answered a question nobody knew to ask: what if an analog stick were big enough to sit on?
Meet YXSTABY, a nine-piece collection of furniture and home accessories designed to make gaming feel at home in the living room. It includes a lounge chair, mobile TV stand, side table, monitor stand and storage solutions, but the stars are the pieces that borrow directly from the Xbox controller.
There is a giant thumbstick stool. There is a green D-pad cushion. There is even a stainless steel D-pad platter for anyone who believes snacks deserve their own gaming accessory.
And honestly, it all makes far more sense than it should.
The thumbstick is now furniture
The collection’s hero piece is a stool modeled after the analog stick on an Xbox controller.
IKEA developed it using Xbox’s original 3D controller files, preserving the curved silhouette and diamond-patterned grip surface at a much larger scale.
The texture that normally keeps a thumb from slipping now helps keep the person sitting on it in place. Better still, the stool tilts with the body, recreating the movement of an actual thumbstick.
It is ridiculous, recognizable and surprisingly functional. In other words, exactly what a good gaming collaboration should be.
The stool comes in green and black, with prices varying between markets.
A D-pad for the sofa
The controller’s directional pad also appears throughout the collection.
A bright green, cross-shaped cushion brings the D-pad onto the sofa, while a faceted stainless steel platter turns the same shape into something closer to a piece of collectible homeware.
There is also a mirrored display box designed to show controllers, figurines and other collectibles from several angles. It treats gaming hardware less like something to hide in a drawer and more like an object worth displaying.
These are the most obviously Xbox-inspired pieces in the range, but the rest of YXSTABY takes a quieter approach.
Gaming furniture without the gamer cave
The lounge chair comes in a soft, neutral finish with a discreet pocket underneath for storing a controller. The rolling side table hides cables and charging equipment behind sliding felt doors. A portable toolbox stores controllers, keyboards and other gear, while its lid doubles as a laptop stand.
IKEA has even created its first mobile TV stand, placing the screen, console and accessories on a wheeled frame that can move between rooms and roll away when playtime is over.
The collection deliberately avoids the aggressive angles, racing-seat shapes and glowing RGB lights associated with traditional gaming furniture. Its colors stay mostly within IKEA territory: white, black, beige and natural wood, with flashes of Xbox green used around pockets, compartments and accessories.
That restraint is the point.
Gaming no longer happens exclusively at a desk in a dedicated room. It happens on sofas, at kitchen tables and in shared spaces where the furniture still has to work after the console is switched off.
Xbox codes, translated into IKEA objects
The smartest part of YXSTABY is that it does not rely on covering ordinary furniture with Xbox logos.
Instead, IKEA translated familiar pieces of the controller into new functions. A thumbstick becomes a tilting seat. A D-pad becomes something soft to lean against. Controller storage becomes part of the furniture rather than an accessory added afterwards.
The strongest products are recognizable as Xbox without needing to announce the collaboration.
That makes YXSTABY feel less like branded gaming merchandise and more like a real meeting between two design systems. Xbox brings the shapes, rituals and nostalgia. IKEA gives them a job to do inside the home.
The YXSTABY collection arrives online and in participating IKEA stores from October 1, with pricing and availability varying by market.
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