Steve Ballmer: Xbox "My Decision, My Accountability"

Of course you want them to keep at it, because you clearly don't have to actually run the business, Spong. They *should* sell it off--the day of the console as the mythical set-top box to rule them all has come and gone--it contributes nothing to the company except the goodwill of a handful of core gamers.

It'd be much better off in the hands of someone that was fully-focused on making it successful, which probably would have avoided all the stupendous judgment errors made on the One.