Xbox and IKEA Officially Unveil YXSTABY, a Nine-Piece Gaming Furniture Collection Launching October 1

IKEA and Xbox have officially unveiled YXSTABY, a nine-piece gaming-inspired furniture and accessories collection co-designed by the two teams and built to fit gaming into the rest of a home rather than the other way around. The collection was announced at Gamescom 2026 and lands in IKEA stores and online from October 1, 2026, with availability varying by market.

The official launch confirmation came from IKEA of Sweden on the Inter IKEA newsroom, with Xbox publishing its own announcement on Xbox Wire. The headline pitch from both sides is the same: gaming is one of the world's biggest hobbies and an essential part of everyday life for more than 3 billion people, but the equipment usually dominates the room. YXSTABY is designed to let the furniture recede back into the home when the controller goes down.

The nine pieces were designed in close collaboration, with one designer from IKEA and one from Xbox working together on every item. Xbox brought 25 years of understanding how people play, IKEA brought more than 80 years of life-at-home expertise, and both teams visited homes where gaming is part of daily life to inform the line. Philip Dilé, Product Design Developer at IKEA of Sweden, framed the brief as making furniture people actually want in their home, rather than furniture they tolerate because they need it to game.

The TV stand is one of the headline pieces. It is the first rolling TV stand IKEA has developed, designed to move to wherever play is happening with storage for gear at the back, then roll away when the game is over. A separate toolbox is built to keep controllers, cables and hardware together, with a lid that closes over the contents and doubles as a laptop stand, so a dining table can briefly become a play space and then become a dining table again.

Other pieces solve smaller, familiar problems. The side table rolls to wherever the player is sitting, giving controllers somewhere to rest besides the arm of the sofa and tucking a charging compartment behind sliding doors. The monitor stand raises one or two screens to a comfortable height, with storage underneath and holders for a phone, headphones and controller.

The collection leans on the Xbox controller for visual identity. The D-pad becomes both a comfortable cushion and a decorative platter in shiny stainless steel, a mirrored display box showcases a controller from every side alongside figurines and other collectibles, and the standout thumbstick stool turns the iconic analogue stick into a piece of seating. IKEA developed the stool directly from the Xbox controller's original 3D design files alongside Xbox device designers, so it tilts with the player the way a thumbstick tilts under a thumb, and the controller's grip texture is repurposed to help keep the person seated in place. Designer David Wahl at IKEA of Sweden said he queued overnight 25 years ago to get his hands on the first Xbox console, and the controller shapes have been nostalgic to work with ever since.

Across the collection, muted white, black and beige tones are used to keep the pieces compatible with the rest of a Scandinavian-style interior, while a single shade of green pulls the eye toward pockets, slings and compartments that hold gaming gear.

YXSTABY is a more grown-up take on the gaming-furniture trend than most of what has come before. The pieces are built for shared spaces rather than a dedicated battlestation, the controller-inspired designs are decorative rather than gimmicky, and the collection is shipping through IKEA's normal retail and online channels rather than as a limited collector drop. For Xbox, it is a tangible extension of the brand into the household that lines up with the wider Return of Xbox push that has run alongside its 25th-anniversary celebrations this year.