Yeah, I doubt more than 10% of Wii games can sell under 100k and be profitable. But the point is, it is the only home console where selling 100k has even a shot at being profitable. I figure Wii games cost $3.5m or so on average to make.
Going by the $21 publishers get, you still only have to sell about 170,000 copies to make a bit of money on a Wii title.
What I should have said is while most Wii games probably can't profit until 170,000+, some can much lower than that. DS is cartridge based so you still have to sell a fair number of titles. If average DS development cost $1,000,000 you would need to sell 67,000 units or so. It may be a bit higher than that, as I've seen interviews with Reggie which essentially say a DS title can usually be profitable at 100,000.
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