So when looking at the data for vgcharts, it seems pretty in line with the official tecmo announcement, aside the fact it is not including europeon figures. Here are two sources I found randomally in google.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/urltrurl?url=http://www.jeux-france.com/news18066.html&lp=fr_en&tt=url

 Tecmo announces today that its title Dead gold Alive 4 ran out to more than one million specimens from its exit during winter 2005/2006. On the whole, these are 500.000 specimens of Dead gold Alive 4 which found taking in Europe, 400.000 in North America and 100.000 in Japan.

Also

http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2006/11/07/dead-or-alive-4-sells-1-million-designer-on-trial-controversy.htm

So what do you guys think? Is this a real million seller or did tecmo pull the wool over the eyes of many? This was announced quite awhile and has since become a platinum hit officially, which would lead me to believe tecmo sold out of their shipments after this was announced. Thanks for reading.    

I missed out on the other Dead Gold Alive games. Some sort of survival horror business?

not at all, it's a very fun entry level 3d fighter with a strange sense of humor and giant boobs. It still has a strong online community today though and looks lovely for it's time. If you like 3d fighters i'd try it since its like 20 or 30 bucks now.

It was just a poor joke based on the wonky translation, is all. It's late and some things are funnier in concept than in practise. I apologize.

my bad, I still don't see the funny and could easily see how someone could misunderstand the name :p