Cramer drinks with Pachter on the weekends now.

Yeah OK Cramer, sure.

You want to sell your division, what you do ?

You spend 2bi to make that division more expensive and limiting the possible buyers.

Genious!!!

i dont know why but i think buying Mojang is silly at this point, its out on all systems essentially and the people who want it probabably already own it.  just my view of this situation but buying them seems silly.  Could also be that i cant get into the game and think its extermely boring.

Wouldn't surprise me

This is what 'not core' meant from the very beginning and it will happen sooner or later. If the X1 does not win the generation or at least get nearly as profitable as the PS4, the investors will force MS to sell the division.

But spending 2 billion $ for a small indie studio without keeping the main developer would make no sense at all.

I stopped reading at Jim Cramer. He's the Pachter of the stock exchange world. Only less entertaining.

Microsoft needs XBOX. What other consumer brand does Microsoft have? Windows still has a rather bad image, and the rest of Microsoft's lineup are largely either seen as dead, near-dead, or enterprise.

Windows doesn't have that much of a bad image. And even if it did, it's still intalled in over 90% of all the world's PCs... 

Look at Windows Phone. Look at Windows 8. I rest my case.

(And, even then, Windows Phone only took off partially because of $$$$ and Nokia.)