NJ5 said:
No, it means it outsold the PS1. It doesn't mean it outperformed it.
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Even so in raw numbers the PS3 hasn't matched or surpassed the PS1...
"Inflation" is another altogether issue which in of itself not needed to confuse things since the PS3 hasn't even reached the PS1.
If "From Paris with Love" doesn't pass Titantic (well I guess Avatar now) there is no need to adjust for inlation... since inflation is only going to make the loser lose more.
I'm not sure if you can use inflation in terms of userbase either... I mean, the market is bigger now, but is the Wii less successful then other systems that it will sell more in yet have a lower userbase?
It's hard to think since the Wii itself expanded the market. I suppose it could be argued that the PS3 isn't expanding the market like the Wii, yet one still has to wonder then if you could hold the Wii's expansion against it because of that.
Then again with the markets just naturally expanded in other markets and population growth i suppose SOME form of inflation should be considered but it's hard to figure how much would be "positive" inflation and how much would be "Systematic inflation."
It would take some fairly complicated equations involving purchasing power vs historic systems sold in similar levels of purchase power etc for different areas.
Would be really hard to pull off... probably the kinda thing you could do a statistics paper on.
