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Microsoft’s focus is entirely on business customers. Xbox doesn't align at all with any of their other business strategies.
I'm sure they'd love to sell it off, but it's like one of the biggest (if not the actual biggest) publishers in the world so I don't think there's any company that can afford to buy it.
They could split it up and sell it off in pieces, but they're not sure if Wall Street will reward them for it. So the best bet for them is to keep it as a buffer for layoffs whenever they need to raise their stock price.
The bullshit part it that our current economic system makes this the most logical path.
tl;dr: Instead of blaming Microsoft for doing layoffs, maybe we should be asking ourselves why we let 3 trillion dollar companies exist in the first place
Even if it's not their core business focus, I feel like having such a significant presence in a market has a lot of value for them. I don't think a sell off would be a good business move. Part of large org strategy is wide prevalence so you can't get around it. Onboard and catch into the ecosystem.
I don't know how they see it, though. Your view/arguments also make sense