This is tough to determine. One could make the argument that Gaming is inherently a childish activity that draw people with childish tendencies and childish tastes.
The counter to this would be what Nintendo learned with it’s product redesigns. Their original Game Boy Advance looked like a toy, but when they redesigned it into the Gameboy Advance SP, it became their best selling Gameboy up to that point. Nothing changed other than the design. The same could be said for the childish GameCube design, where the modern/Apple inspired successor Wii became their best selling console up to that point as well.
This is probably the same issue Tesla made about EVs. Why does an EV have to look like some particularly weird looking car? Why can’t it look like a decent entry level luxury car?
So ya, none of this advanced gaming hardware has to look this fucking stupid for sure. The design teams are basically insulting everyone’s taste based on some kind of prejudice, that we’re all some kind of Mountain Dew Code Red drinking neck beards with zero taste.
This chair looks like it has some very good utility that solves some issues around desk space, viewing angle and ergonomics. If they just approached it with less prejudice, it could follow a smaller modern minimalist form that would appeal to vast swaths of the population. For what it’s worth, a design like this is better at tackling the reality of sitting at a computer all day than the Standing desk. The standing desk is mainstream, but this will never be. I wonder why?
I cannot have a fucking scorpion chair in my apartment as an adult.