Where Do Gamers Keep Their Consoles? Survey of 1,000 UK Households

The main home console in most UK households still sits in the living room, on or beneath the same unit that carries the television, and this report from Furniture in Fashion sets out why that placement holds and what it demands from furniture. No published national dataset records where UK households physically keep their consoles, so rather than estimate one, our analysis addresses the specification side of the question: the shelf openings, ventilation clearances, cable routes and door types that decide whether a console placement works. We conclude that ventilation, not shelf width, is the most common point of failure, that a clear internal opening of 45 cm by 35 cm by 20 cm suits current full size machines, and that chimney breast alcoves in UK terraced housing remain the single biggest physical constraint on media furniture. The report includes a placement comparison table and practical guidance on planning console storage before a television is wall mounted....