Original report comes from the paywalled The Information, that they tried to sell to private equity for $100B-$150B, but that it was short lived and fell through. This backs what a lot of us have been thinking based on the moves Sharma has been making, that they track with a sell-off of the Xbox brand.
Budgets got higher, which made multiplatform releases just about mandatory. Making third party games exclusive isn’t working out, in general. I don’t know that that’s a genie you can put back in the bottle anymore.