Xbox × IKEA's YXSTABY Collection: Every Piece and Price So Far

When IKEA and Xbox first teased their collaboration in August, the two pieces on show — a D-pad cushion and a thumbstick stool — read as a design exercise. The full line, unveiled at Gamescom on August 26 under the name YXSTABY, turns out to be something more useful: nine pieces of actual furniture, priced like IKEA rather than like licensed merchandise.

In the UK, where prices have been published, the D-pad cushion and a stainless steel D-pad platter start at £12. A mirrored controller display box is £15, a laptop support with storage £19, and a monitor stand £25. The thumbstick stool, in green or black, is £35. At the top sit an £89 lounge chair on a tubular metal frame, a £99 TV stand on castors, and a £115 round side table on castors with storage built in.

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That price ladder is the story. Officially licensed gaming furniture has mostly meant paying extra for a logo. Nothing in YXSTABY costs more than £115, and the cheapest pieces cost about what you'd pay for a candle.

IKEA's US site now carries the same nine pieces, priced from $17.99 for either D-pad piece (the cushion or the controller platter) up to $179.99 for the side table on castors. The lounge chair runs $119.99, the TV stand $149.99, the thumbstick stool $49.99, the monitor stand $39.99, the laptop support $34.99 and the controller display box $29.99. Every listing is marked "Coming soon," with IKEA confirming US availability in-store on October 1 and online on November 30.

Most of the range isn't novelty at all. The TV stand and side table roll, the monitor stand takes one screen or two, and the storage toolbox's lid doubles as a laptop stand. IKEA of Sweden product design developer Philip Dilé framed the reasoning around how play has changed: "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."

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The controller pieces are where the personality lives, and they turn out to be more personal than a corporate collaboration usually allows. "I queued all night 25 years ago to get my hands on the first XBOX console, so those shapes are nostalgic to me," said IKEA of Sweden designer David Wahl. You can see it in the stool, which carries the knurled diamond grip pattern from the top of a real thumbstick.

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In the UK, YXSTABY arrives in stores and online from October 1, though IKEA says timing may vary by market.

The first look

IKEA and Xbox posted the same teaser to their official Instagram accounts on August 19: a first look at a furniture line built out of twenty-five years of Xbox hardware, with two pieces on show.

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The first was a cushion shaped like a D-pad, in a deep Xbox green with piped seams tracing the cross. It reads as a genuine object rather than a novelty — the proportions are soft and generous, closer to a floor cushion than a throw pillow, and the piping does real work holding the shape of the arms.

The second piece gave the project away. It's a stool built in the shape of a controller thumbstick — the tapered stem, the domed base, and critically the knurled diamond grip texture wrapping the seat. That texture is not decorative. It's the exact pattern moulded onto the top of an Xbox analog stick so your thumb doesn't slip, reproduced at furniture scale. Nobody includes that detail unless they've spent real time with the object they're referencing.

That's what separates this from Xbox's earlier runs at homeware. The Series X fridge in 2020, the mini fridge that followed in 2021, the Series S toaster in 2024 — those were jokes executed well, objects whose entire premise was that a console looks like an appliance. This is the inverse. It takes the parts of the hardware you actually touch and treats them as design language, which is a considerably harder brief and a much more interesting one.

IKEA has been building toward this for a while rather than chasing a trend. The company moved into gaming in 2021 with a Republic of Gamers collaboration, then followed with BRÄNNBOLL, a twenty-piece collection, in September 2024. Gaming furniture as a category has mostly meant aggressive angles, RGB lighting and racing-seat silhouettes. IKEA's read has consistently been quieter: gaming as something that happens in a normal room, in furniture you'd keep after you stopped caring about the console.

The teaser looked like a stunt. The full range reads like the opposite — a considered furniture line that happens to include a stool shaped like a thumbstick.