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http://fromthegutter.org/?p=539

I found this pretty good to read. It doesn't only concern the Wii, but I couldn't really think of a way to change the title, so I left it the way I found it.

Ican't really trust it fully though, because the website isn't "official", but the information is ........interesting to say the least.

decent article. obviously using massive assumption here, but they at least make sense and seem within the boundary of realism.

Pretty heavy on theory, and pretty light on facts. Just stacking specific sales against average cost won't tell you if that title actually made money or not, even assuming your sales and average cost data are accurate. You need to consider the specific case of the product in question, or shovelware starts to look like a massive failure (it clearly isn't), while heavily invested games that limp over the 500,000 mark look like success.

Furthermore, making a slight profit on a game (that is, selling one unit more than required to break even) still doesn't exactly make it a success. You need a good, solid return on investment to justify that investment, or you're going to effectively lose money to inflation and opportunity costs. I'd guess at least a 5% return per year it takes for that money to come back to you.