I just think someone at Vavle in marketing thought it would be a good idea to time this “themed” release with the new Half Life 1 refresh and convinced Gaben to do it. Vavle wouldn’t have been able to meet the demand at the “good” factory making the 512/1GB normal OLED models so they farmed out the manufacturing to someone else to handle the LE models as this LE plan was only only green lit a few months ago. This would also explain why you can still order the “Limited” edition model as they appear to be making them on order (after the initial lot was cleared out) and hence the 1-2 weeks timeframe (which is really 2 - 4 weeks since the first lot sold out).