Two years after paying $68.7 billion for Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is tearing down the empire it built. The numbers behind the reset explain why — and expose a question the cuts cannot answer. New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has confirmed the largest restructuring in the division's history: roughly 3,200 jobs gone across the fiscal year, four studios spun out and a fifth under review, and a business she calls "not healthy." Here is what happened, the economics that forced it, and the harder debate...

Microsoft has announced it is cutting 4,800 jobs, including many in its Xbox division. This represents about 2.1% of its global workforce.

Xbox will cut about 3,200 jobs and offload five studios, including the UK’s Ninja Theory and France’s Arkane, in its biggest-ever restructure.

"Our business today is not healthy," Xbox CEO Asha Sharma warned in a memo to staff Monday.

Microsoft eliminated approximately 2.1% of its global workforce

Microsoft said Monday it was eliminating about 4,800 jobs -- roughly two percent of its global workforce -- in a cost-cutting move that will deliver a sweeping restructuring of…