Because it didn't outsell ps4 dosn't mean X1 sold bad

I didn't say that. It's actually selling quite good. 

My whole "Microsoft is doomed" rant only applies to if they actually want to overtake the PS4. 

As a standalone console, they are doing fine. Although losing a lot of money.

Where are you getting this from? We only have UK and US numbers for Halo's week, and the Bone is in first for both.

I believe Microsoft is more concerned with flipping a profit. Xbox One just needs to make money, and it seems the console is finally looking favorable by consumers. Meanwhile at Sony they are just hoping they can still afford the electricity bill.

Besides 3rd party games are the money makers and console sellers. First party is just used to differentiate the two.

Hyrperbole incoming: This bolded sentence makes, quite literally, zero sense.

If the two products are the same given third party software then how does the first party that differentiates them not matter and sway console sales?

Your entire post is at odds with itself. It starts off with a veiled conceit that the important thing for MSFT is simple profit not growth, then immediately jumps to consumer perception, then randomly ignores the games division at sony making a profit and extrapolates Sony Corps struggles and implies the games division is somehow responsible for their mobile division catastrophic losses.

You really could have just said "So, MSFT makes more money" and been done with it rather than post contradicting, unsubstantial sentences.

They were never going to win a week worldwide.

Bolded part isn't true.

 "We shipped at the same time and we're in direct competition with the PS4," he admits. "I'm not going to duck that. I want to win. I want to win this generation"

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/08/12/i-want-to-win-this-generation-says-xbox-boss-phil-spencer.aspx

At OP. Yeah...It was pretty now or never for MS...Maybe when Halo 5 comes out?

I don't quite understand what you're trying to demonstrate - there appears to be a step missing in your argument.

What was it about outselling the PS4 one week of the year that would have been the Xbox One's saviour? More to the point, was is it about failing to do that this week that should particularly worry Microsoft?

Is your concept that anything other than first place in this console cycle will result in failure? Is it that failing to win this week just gone worldwide will substantially influence Microsoft's long-term sales, potential for profit or ability to attract large games?

And whether this does or does not worry Microsoft (I suspect it does not worry them at all), why would a relatively niche title (Bloodborne) or new IP that has received mediocre press (The Order) cause them to substantially shift in either direction?

I think its more likely that Microsoft will look at the steps they have taken, look at the dramatic improvement in their market position in the last few weeks, and be quite pleased.

The op is talking about last week's ww sales numbers not passing those of ps4's. No one is talking about the generation itself. But we're talking about US sales for the month of November and as I said, in case it wasn't clear, after the price cut and bundles for north America, they have indeed won a week or two that they set out to win. If you don't think Microsoft won the past two weeks in america, you're kidding yourself. 

As for the whole month, that won't be known till next month's npd. 

He couldn't have read that wrong. Think he just wanted to put that in.  Smh