When I went to Best Buy in search of the Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive, there were something like 40 people camped outside with their blankets and deck chairs, waiting for the PS3 to come out.

It was the same story at Wal-Mart. Apparently that Wal-Mart has 10 PS3s coming, but again, 40 people or so outside. I guess its some kind of Fan-Boy Endurance Content.

Even while I was waiting to check out with my shiny HD-DVD drive, 5 or 6 people were bombarding the poor sales guy about when the PS3 was coming, and when can they can one, and do any other stores have them and on and on.

Well color me crazy, but it seems silly to me to be holding out for a console full of new tech with meh games and so on, when they'll be readily available in 6 months. Remember when the 360 first came out and people were buying/selling them on eBay for $2500 and now you can get them at or under MSRP. I see the same pattern happening again, but there are still only a small number of games any one person is likely to be interested in. And the British game magazine Edge didn't rate Resistance of Man (the big PS3 launch title) very highly at all...

Ah well - at least we're in Arizona and the fan-boys aren't getting snowed on.