The PlayBox combines a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox One into a single, portable chassis

[Shawn Knight]

Modding enthusiast Ed Zarick recently received a request from a customer asking for both a PlayStation 4 and an Xbox One to be housed inside a single, portable notebook-style chassis. Not wanting to disappoint, Zarick spent the past month making it happen and the end result is, as you can see, extremely impressive.

As Zarick points out on his blog, he was able to cram everything inside of a 22-inch laptop form factor. The finished product is the same size as the Xbook Duo which is only slightly taller than the original Xbook One.

For those curious, the PS4 sits on the left side of the enclosure while the Xbox One resides on the right. The entire unit requires just one power cable although unfortunately, only one of the two systems can be powered on at any given time.

Zarick wasn’t able to get the PS4’s capacitive power button to work consistently due to interference from the Xbox One being so close but the good news is that the system turns on perfectly fine using a controller. A few other compromises had to be made as well (the USB ports on the Xbox don’t extend to the outside of the case, for example) but all in all, it looks like a solid build.

TechSpot regulars may recall our story on Ed Zarick’s Xbook One Laptop – essentially a portable version of Microsoft’s latest console – last September.

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[Guest]

The God of gaming must been put some shine on this ppl.
Poor *******s.

 

[Forg0t2]

Looks sweet. However if it was up to me I would make a decked system with the 2 on top of eachother since I use that stuff only in the lviing room and therefore would be nice to have only one design to look at instead of 2. I hope more people would do stuff like this cause it is interesting to see these kind of things appear.

 

[Guest]

This is silly, why not built a powerful ITX PC instead?

 

[Kibaruk]

This is silly, why not built a powerful ITX PC instead?

Because consoles!

"Hey why would you drive a car when you can drive a motor boat??" It's exactly what you asked, both can be used to travel but you can't drive a car on water nor a motor boat on land, can you?? (And don't come in here with your hybrid designs, you know what I mean).

 

[davislane1]

Alternatively, you could build a custom tower stuffed with a PC, XB1, and PS4. It would be a leviathan....But it would do everything.

 

[Britishmade1973]

Lovely, I would like you to make me one please, but can you make mine multi chargable, with solar panels, wifi (ether) charging and also that runs off of water.
Look forward to hearing from you Ed.
Is there anyway you can rig mine up to jump onto any wifi signal avaliable?