Microsoft wanted this badly, to the point that even I bought an Xbox One because of the good deal. And I wasn't planing in buying one at all.

There is Black Friday in Brasil too, I was able to get an UK price Xbox One there.

Only NOT in Japan. Drop XB1 to 99 euros with Halo, Sunset, Forza bundled and it'd give PS4 a real run for its money.

Would never happen, obviously.

Yeah it had to drop the silly kinect so it could match it on price.

That's why. The Xbox division is one of the less-profitiable divisions within Microsoft and there has already been talks of investors wanting to get rid of Xbox. Microsoft can't afford to make the Xbox One a financial disaster, especially if it still gets outsold WW on a regular basis.

Hard to beat a billion dollar corporation.. They can drop the Xbox one to 199 whenever they want too

Actually they can.. And Sony can do absolutely nothing to combat it.. And who cares.. The article says just edges out the competition.. So they almost sold the same despite the one having way better deals in bundles 

The fact that Microsoft has billions of dollars in its pocket doesn't mean they'll just take billions of dollars of loss to win a console race, that's not how a business is run.

Which offsets the huge momentum PS4 has had this past year.

The thing is if they make a lose of £50 on every xbox sold this can easy be made up through store sales or xbox live gold, sometimes in business you have to reduce profits in the short term for long term rewards. 

And just so you know MS makes billions in profit so can aborb this, where as Sony have been in the red for many years.

If it was this simple then consoles (especially Xbox consoles) would launch at way lower price, wouldn't they?