Although the game industry finds that it's too early to tell, the business world seems to have already made their stand on the console race. To the business moguls that swim in oceans of profit, the console wars has probably already been decided.

And Fortune magazine, the iconic media vein that touches each of the Fortune 500 companies, announced a winner: the Nintendo Wii.

In fact, issue number 10 dated June 11, 2007 of Fortune has not only covered the Wii phenomenon, the story was even plastered all over the issue's front cover. The story was entitled "How Wii Won" and was followed by the subs "The Secret of Nintendo's Surprise Mega-Hit."

Obviously not oblivious to the fast growing games industry, the business magazine dived into an in-depth investigation of Nintendo's "secret formula" that made the profit-makers tender their decision of the game console race. There were many points that Jeffrey M. O'Brien reported, including financial and business relationships and outlooks.

Now everyone knows that the Wii sells out like nothing ever seen before, but what people didn't know is that Nintendo has been gaining a US$ 50 profit per Wii sold and that is largely attributed to a ingeniously invented device that probably costs no more than $ 15 to make: the Wii remote. Fortune practically performed technical surgery on one Wiimote, separating it to its component parts, and priced each part:

• Accelerometer: $ 2.50
• Basic Memory Chip: $ 0.25
• Audio Amplifier: $ 0.50
• Data Converter: $ 0.50
• Rumble Pack: $ 2.50
• Bluetooth Chip: $2.00
• Audio Translator: $ 2.00
• Plastic Casing: Unknown
• Wrist Strap: Unknown