ChannelNews understands that there are people inside Microsoft who favour selling the troubled business, seeing Xbox as a needless distraction from the core enterprise, cloud and AI operation that management is now betting the Company on. Fourth Straight Quarter Of DeclineLate last week, Microsoft revealed a fourth consecutive quarter of decline for the Xbox business, with a 10% slump in Xbox content and services revenue, the line that includes Game Pass subscriptions, and a 13% fall in hardware sales. A Rounding Error For MicrosoftThe brutal reality for gaming fans is that the Xbox implosion barely moved the needle on Microsoft’s overall results. For a management team obsessed with data centres rather than gaming consoles, selling Xbox simply gets rid of a problem the Company does not need. There have already been reports of internal discussions at Microsoft about more dramatic options, including spinning off the Xbox division entirely as the financial pressure mounts.