Xbox and IKEA are teasing gaming furniture together – please let it be called the ÄKSBOXX
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Xbox and IKEA are teasing a new furniture collaboration on Insta, proving there is still at least some household objects Microsoft has not attempted to turn into an Xbox.
A brief video shared by the companies shows what appears to be a large piece of furniture modelled after an Xbox analogue stick. It could be a stool, a side table or possibly somewhere for Phil Spencer to quietly sit rocking in a dark room somewhere underneath Microsoft while explaining that absolutely everything is an Xbox now.
There is also a green cushion shaped like a controller D-pad. Trip over that in the dark and you will be need to hit down, down, right to hospital.
Precise details remain almost non-existent but it’s still worth a look eh? Neither company has revealed the collection’s full contents, prices or release date, although its arrival just before gamescom suggests we may learn more during the Cologne show. For now, all we really know is that Xbox and IKEA have joined forces, and things are coming our way
I wonder if we will get a shelf specifically designed to display all the Xbox exclusives that eventually appeared on PlayStation?
Series Äks?
Joking aside, IKEA has already spent several years attempting to make gaming furniture look less garish. Its existing gaming range includes relatively restrained desks, chairs and storage units, making it a far more promising partner than most companies producing products for gamers.
The enormous controller components shown in this teaser suggest subtlety may have been temporarily placed in storage, however. There is every chance the full collection will make your living room resemble the set of a 1990s children’s television programme where contestants have to crawl across a giant gamepad, only to get gunged at the end in, er Gamer Juice.
We should discover exactly what Xbox and IKEA have been assembling soon. Until then, download the AirTasker or TaskRabbit app in preparation.
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