I think it's because the sells of this sku are too high, and microsoft don't do the necesseries things to fix the problem. In France a lot of people on different forums speak they search arcades sku, and they don't find them.
In Italy they said that:
http://www.forumeye.it/invision/index.php?showtopic=439975&st=170
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La suddivisione dovrebbe essere 65% Arcade 20% Pro e 15% Elite.
Fonte: La stessa che mi passa le classifiche
Which for me want say that this sku sells the most of the three sku.
When GTA 4 was launch (29 april), prosugno told us this sku was sold out.
And for others countries in Europe, i think it's actually impossible to find easily this sku.