Ail said:
It's sold to retailers, ie shipped. Publishers have no way to track sold numbers to customers (except by hiring companies like NPD to give them estimates because most retailers have no obligation to report sold numbers to the publisher). Keep that in mind and the number sold to customers are going to be bellow that number, how much bellow is hard to say but probably at least 200k bellow...( 50k retailers worldwide each carrying 4 copies doesn't seem to be an overestimation).
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RE4 Wii will definitely not have 200k copies on shelves, it is an old game by now which isn't moving a lot of copies. If the game is still selling 20-30k units worldwide per month that would be 6-7 months of inventory. With these kind of sales some stores will just stop carrying it and others will only order a few copies and wait until they're sold out until reordering.