You can count the number of third-party Wii million sellers on six hands! For DS third-party million sellers, you'd need ten.
There's little question that Wii software sells, but does it sell when it's not made by Nintendo? Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President and CEO, recently took the time to touch on exactly that issue at Nintendo's Third Quarter Financial Results Briefing and provided some numbers to prove it.
According to Iwata, 30 third-party Wii titles had shipped more than a million units worldwide by the end of last year. That's 18 more than just nine months earlier; suggesting that third-party developer performance on Nintendo's market-leading home console was accelerating.
For the DS, Iwata trotted out a similar drastic increase from 28 third-party million sellers at the end of last March to 49 by the end of last year. That's 21 new million-selling DS titles in just nine months.
Iwata noted that, for the past two months, the Wii had sold more third-party software than any other console in the US. He added, "As the hardware [expands] their installed bases, we are starting to see a cycle where more titles from the third parties are making the million sellers list."
Nintendo themselves recorded sales for 15 first-party DS titles and 11 first-party Wii titles in the last three quarters, but this information does not list million-selling titles that did not feature sales data for that reporting period.