Well piracy is always a worry for big companies but check this out -- <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=NTDOY.PK&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=">finance.yahoo.com/</a>
Nintendo stock has gone 4 fold in the last 2 years. Thats explosive growth for a company that size.
You could say 'it would be more without modchips etc'
But I don't think so, modchips increase hardware sales. A lot of people wouldn't buy a wii/ds if they knew they couldn't mod it.