Look how bad the sales have dropped, 29,000 this past week.
Considering it's like the 7th-8th year of that gen, you'd assume the 360/ps3 would be sold at a profit, or at least a profit with the sale of one game.
But I reckon microsoft tried to play all their cards on xbox one, and in the process abandoning 360.
Xbox One is not selling as much as they would have liked (They wanted to dominate Sony) and xbox 360 has hit hard, likely to get worse as EU slowly abandons it, maybe to current japanese sales levels.
MS have a ton of money, but they still need to make money in each department.
With the xbox one likely being sold at a loss, and recent price cuts meaning they are earning even less, and after the huge investments they made for next gen
(EA love - Dead rising 3/Ryse buyout - Titanfall - Insomniac and $100 million controller r&d) they are losing/not making as much as they'd like money which explains the price cuts & bundling in order to boost sales, very early on.
Add this on top of the fact x360 isn't doing so well for them now, they look like they could be in a nervous position with the xbox division.
The likelyhood of microsoft spinning off the xbox division increases I reckon.
