This gamer doesn’t have to choose between PlayStation, Xbox, or Nintendo: she fused all three into one wild, impressive creation. Sadly, the “Ningtendo PXBOX” isn’t something you can just buy in stores.
Plenty of people are still stuck in console-war mode, but for this YouTuber, that fight is already done. Last year’s Switch 2 launch breathed fresh life into the old three-way balance of PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo, and it also created new questions for players about where to spend their money, their time, and their precious living-room real estate.
Chinese YouTuber XNZ is basically offering a ceasefire with a 3-in-1 hardware experiment that does exactly what it says on the tin. She combined a PlayStation 5, an Xbox Series X, and a Nintendo Switch 2 into a single Frankenstein-style machine – jokingly naming it the “Ningtendo PXBOX” – while keeping the full functionality of each console intact. And she did it without leaning on emulators: the build runs on the original internal components and the consoles’ own operating systems.
The whole thing started as a ridiculous idea. Stuffing the guts of three consoles into one case would have been messy and wasteful, but at the same time, each system has unique parts that are essential to how it works. Her answer was a middle ground: keep the motherboard from each console inside the new device, then unify the cooling and the power supply. After running the numbers, she found that 250W could handle all three – as long as she didn’t try to run games on multiple systems at the same time.
Cooling was trickier, but the solution ended up being just as clever, and she found it thanks to an unexpected source: Apple. She took inspiration from the infamous 2013 Mac Pro “trash can,” which centralized airflow between components, and set out to recreate that approach. Instead of a cylinder, she went with a pentahedron shape, placing the cooling system in the center and using the three vertical faces to house the components from the three different consoles.
The process she followed is not something you can casually replicate. To create the custom parts for the build, she at one point had to make a plaster mold using a vacuum chamber and a high-temperature electric oven – and that’s on top of buying each console separately and fully tearing them down first.
The end result, though, is pure gamer fantasy. A sleek, futuristic box that can run any modern console game you throw at it. Red, blue, or green lights indicate which system is active, and a button on the top swaps between them. Everything else behaves like the stock machines do – basically the same experience as switching an HDMI cable between different consoles. She even built a slot into the casing so you can slide the Switch 2 in like it’s sitting in its dock, keeping Nintendo’s portability intact.
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