Ubisoft’s financial results are just in. We won’t bore you with a list of figures and ‘year-on-year’ increase percentages and stuff. We’ll just inform you that the French publisher has made loads more cash than it expected to.

Last financial year’s profits were in the region of €37.4 million ($50.9m), largely down to Ubisoft’s key franchises and licenses such as the recently released Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 and 1980s nostalgia-fest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, both of which have already shifted a million boxed discs since launch.

Ubisoft, alongside bigger fishes Electronic Arts and Activision, has been one of the key third party publishers to support Nintendo’s Wii from the off. SPOnG salutes them for their forward-thinking development strategy in this area.

Now if only they can improve the control mechanics a tad in the next Red Steel, they might just have something…