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- IKEA and Xbox have teamed up on YXSTABY, a nine-piece gaming furniture collection launching in Australia on 1 October 2026.
- The range includes a $69.99 thumbstick stool developed from the original Xbox controller files, plus a $24.99 D-pad cushion.
- A $149 TV stand on castors lets you wheel your setup around the house, with built-in storage for consoles and controllers.
The IKEA and Xbox nine-piece YXSTABY gaming furniture collection has got me vividly reliving my childhood. I had to wait quite a while before I got my first video game console. Some of my earliest memories involve heading to a mate’s house, finding a CRT television on the floor hooked up to an Xbox, and then claiming whatever patch of carpet or spare pillow was closest to the oversized controller.
Back then, there wasn’t really a “gaming setup”. I was far too young to be setting up LAN parties in the garage, so my mates’ Xboxes, PlayStations and even my GameCube (which I still own today) went wherever there was a television, a power point and enough room for everyone to sit around blasting each other on Blood Gulch for the umpteenth time.
Now imagine rocking up to your mate’s place after school and finding a giant thumbstick stool, a D-pad cushion and an entire TV stand on wheels waiting for you instead. Well, that’s basically what IKEA and Xbox have cooked up with the YXSTABY nine-piece gaming furniture collection.
1/3Xbox Controller, Meet IKEA Furniture
The collection is built around the idea that gaming doesn’t always have its own dedicated space. Sometimes it’s on the couch. Other times it’s at the dining table, maybe in bed. But mostly, it’s about relinquishing the remote when someone else wants the living room back.
Before we get to the more mobile aspects of the collection, the most obvious place to start is the $69.99 thumbstick stool. At first glance, you might think IKEA ripped the thumbstick straight from your controller and made it big enough to sit on. That’s because they did.
IKEA says it developed the stool using the original 3D files for the Xbox controller’s thumbstick, complete with a similar grip texture around the edge. It also tilts as you move, mimicking the motion of the actual stick beneath your thumb. So, when things get sweaty and you start leaning into the screen, the stool moves with you.
IKEA designer David Wahl has his own history with the original Xbox. Twenty-five years ago, he queued overnight to get his hands on the original Xbox. Wahl said the challenge was making those familiar thumbstick proportions work as a stool, which required “the right seating curve and stability, while still feeling like a thumbstick.”
Then there’s the $24.99 D-pad cushion, which takes me straight back to the race for the best pillow or patch of floor at a mate’s place. Imagine fighting over the bright green Xbox D-pad cushion instead?
The controller references don’t stop there. The collection includes a $24.99 stainless-steel D-pad platter, a $34.99 mirrored display box for controllers and collectibles, and green accents across pockets and storage areas.
But what surprises me most about the YXSTABY collection is that most of it still looks like IKEA furniture, even when the Xbox is switched off. And that’s very much on purpose. IKEA set out to make pieces people would actually want in their homes, rather than furniture they simply tolerate because it’s made for gaming.
As IKEA Australia and New Zealand design leader Ainslie Woodham puts it, YXSTABY is built for “real gaming setups”, whether that’s a dedicated room, a bedroom corner or a shared living space.
That is, until you have to start building the flatpacks.
1/8The TV Setup Can Move Now, Too
This brings us to one of the more peculiar parts of the collection, and the least ridiculous-looking, depending on how you feel about moving TVs around the living room.
The $149 TV stand on castors lets you mount a television and store your console, controllers and remotes around the back, then wheel the entire setup wherever you need it.
It’s the first TV stand of its kind from IKEA, and the logic behind developing it is pretty simple: If you don’t have a dedicated gaming room, you can bring the screen to wherever people are playing rather than rearranging the entire house around it.
We’ve already seen screens sprout wheels, like LG’s StanbyME 2 Max. IKEA’s approach is much simpler: keep the TV you already own, put it on castors and roll the whole setup into your next gaming session.
That is, if you can find a free power point. Extension lead not included.
The same move-it-when-you-need-it thinking carries through the rest of the range, including a $199 rolling side table with charging and storage, a $39.99 laptop support that hides your gear, a $39.99 monitor stand and a $159 lounge chair with controller storage underneath.
Most of the practical stuff isn’t especially glamorous, but when you’re locked into a game, you’re probably not thinking too hard about the feng shui anyway. Since gaming often moves around the house, IKEA and Xbox have at least made it a little easier for the furniture to come along for the ride.
The full YXSTABY collection arrives in IKEA stores and online across Australia and New Zealand from 1 October 2026, with local pricing ranging from $24.99 to $199.
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