If you haven't been following Xbox news, here's the short version: Microsoft's gaming division is going through its biggest shake-up in years, and it's raising a question nobody expected to be asking seriously: could Microsoft eventually sell Xbox altogether?

Earlier this year Asha Sharma was appointed the CEO of Xbox, taking over from its long-time head, Phil Spencer, after leading the company for more than ten years. Not long into the new job, Sharma, along with the recently appointed chief content officer, Matt Booty, circulated a memo to employees about an "Xbox reset".

They pointed to thin profit margins, sharply rising costs for console parts due to a global memory and storage shortage, and a game-studio portfolio that had grown too........

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