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Of the 74 publishers making Wii games only 3 of them had more profitable games than unprofitable ones and one of those is Nintendo.

According to Reggie Fils-Aime, Wii developers need to move 1 million units of any Wii game in order to make a profit. Domestically only 16 Wii titles out of 468 released in the U.S. have hit that milestone.

As I mentioned in my previous article, VGChartz is a little more generous in their global sales totals listing 79 Wii titles which we can now call "profitable" and and 770 which we can call "unprofitable".

MCV: Title sells through 294,000 in UK; Wii Sports Resort is territory’s best performer in Q3; Dragon Quest IX tops global sales

Nintendo’s Reggie Fils Aime has said that total sales of DS currently stand at around 100 million, while the total global sales of the PS2 to date are at 110 million.

MCV Writes: GDC 09: Global sales of Wii Fit and peripheral just a few million behind Sony console

Nintendo this morning told attendees to its GDC keynote that the Wii Balance Board has almost outsold the PS3 globally.

Iwata referred to the device as almost a platform in its own right, pointing out that developers now have more options for games development and hardware to target.

"Some developers are already taking advantage of this opportunity," before a Nintendo rep demoed new Wii Ware game Rock ‘n’ Roll Climber.