Maybe and maybe not. I call it the "line in front of the club" effect. You see the line in front of the club and think "wow! that place must be hot!" Really, they're holding people out front on purpose to create some deliberate scarcity/exclusivity.

Apple does this as well with some of their products. And locally, there are some boutique restaurants that deliberately have really short hours or otherwise manufacture the "line out front" effect (lack of seating, for example).

But if they made the product/service widely available, suddenly the perceived scarcity/exclusivity plummets. It's no longer a "get it now or miss out" proposition.

Put another way, when pursuing that kind of business model you actually WANT people to bitch and moan, and talk up the differences between a Pro and LE. Because secretly, the people who do fork over for the LE get that "VIP" feeling seeing the rabble going into a tailspin over their perceived far-inferior games.

But how many people do you know who bought ACDC Pro machines? Just off-hand, I can think of three in our area, all bought by distributors who don't post here.

There is one LE on location and the other I know of is a BIB in a collection.