My PC Gaming Chair: PU-leather or fabric?

When youre looking for a PC Gaming Chair, its obvious that you only want the best. You dont want to be spending money on something that isnt going to properly support you while youre gaming, of course! And we all know that the kind of materials that are used in gaming chairs can have a large impact on how good the chair is as a whole.

It can be hard to decide whether you should go for PU-Leather or fabric. Both options have a lot of positive and negative aspects, so it can largely depend on your individual desires. Thankfully, weve written this article to highlight the key things you need to know about both PU leather and fabric

What is PU Leather?

As you can imagine, PU Leather is like real leather, but it isnt exactly the same. This is a manufactured leather product that is constructed out of split leather.

This kind of leather is made out of the part of the animal hide that remains after making high quality leather, such as top grain or full grain leather. Because of this, the material is much cheaper and isnt quite as good as real leather, but its certainly not bad.

Once the split leather has been removed, it is then covered in polyurethane and its applied to the surface of the piece of furniture, the gaming chair in this case.

The chair will have a gossy finish that looks a little vintage, but not really realistic. A lot of vintage furniture like diner booths were made out of PU leather!

PU Leather PC Gaming Chair Characteristics

Okay, so what are the key things you need to know about PU Leather? Well, firstly the look. A lot of people like the look of leather and while it isnt necessarily an enitrely authentic look, it still does look mostly like leather but its much cheaper.

Sweating

One of the biggest problems with PU Leather gaming chairs is that they can have the unwanted side effect of making you sweat a little more than usual this is generally the main reason why a lot of people prefer not to use these chairs.

The material isnt particularly breathable so a lot of gamers can get pretty sweaty when they are gaming in the summer, which isnt the most comfortable thing. After a while you may get up to see that your seat is utterly drenched not good!

With that being said, it really does depend on just how much you sweat. Not everyone sweats a lot, so this may not bother you.

Learn more about the differences in office furniture leather.

Stain Immunity

One particularly big selling point of PU Leather gaming chairs is that theyre pretty much immune to stains. If you drop some hot cheese nachos on your gaming chair no sweat! All you need to do is wipe the first of the seat so its really easy to clean.

This may not be too much of a concern for an adult gamer who most likely doesnt drop food everywhere at this point, but if youre looking to buy the chair for a kid this could be useful.

The unfortunate thing about real leather is that you really need to be careful with how you are treating it. Its pretty expensive and damage can be pretty catastrophic. You dont need to worry about that with a PU leather based chair.

Durability Factors

Unfortunately, as with pretty much any product, a PU Leather gaming chair is going to become damaged due to abrasion and general wear and tear.

Most modern PU Leather gaming chairs are quite durable but time doesnt always favour gaming chairs. It should be noted, however, that this damage is very gradual, like were talking YEARS. The chairs as a whole are actually very durable but they just dont always age well.

Looks

If you really squint, a PU leather gaming chair looks just like real leather. You can only really see the differences between the two when you started to look closer, and your average joe probably wont even notice at all.

The only person thats really going to know that this isnt real leather is someone that works with leather a lot or is a bit of a leather fanatic. We dont know many leather fanatics that are also gamers, do you?

Customization Options

As we have already established, PU Leather is synthetic. Because of this, it can also be dyed easily, which means you can select a bunch of different colors for the chair (even a pink or purple gaming chair, for example).

You dont need to worry about the quality of the leather degrading because the manufacturer still uses polyurethane to coat it. If you want to pay a little more money certain companies even allow you to have custom designs, made by professional artists!

Fabric Gaming Chairs