I'm sure this is true for most current teenage kids. None of them were the market though as most teenage kids don't have 8K to spend on pinball. Their dads are the market for this game, so what kids think is cool will likely have zero affect on game sales.

I think the half goes over seas has been a lie for a good while. It's just a selling tactic to pressure you to buy now, nothing more. Automated alone probably gets more then what will be sent over seas.

Time will tell if GB holds its value. If it turns out to be a really good game the LE's will demand a lot of money. At this moment my LE is likely 2 months away from being made and I could easily sell it for $600 more then I'm paying for it. That alone speaks for the excitement and initial demand for this title. I have not seen that happen before. Distributors were raising their prices every couple of hrs and people were still buying them. I've never seen so many sell that close to the MSRP.