Just got back from my local EB Games. They sold out of their ten Playstation 3 pre-orders in ten minutes flat. The store took two for employees, though I only saw one guy in the store, and left the eight for the remaining nine people line-waiting. I was number eight, but gave up my spot to the guy behind me because I'm still planning on line-sitting at Best Buy or such.

The first guy to hit the line arrived at 6:30 a.m. in short and a t-shirt. (Keep in mind I'm talking about Colorado, where this morning's temp at 10 a.m. was a balmy 42 degrees.) The rest trickled in up until 9:55 a.m. or so.

I chatted it up with the group and found all but one of them were waiting for a PS3 for themselves. One woman was in line to buy one for her sons. Only two of those in line had an Xbox 360 and none of them planned to buy a Wii. Two also owned a Playstation Portable.

The biggest draw, among those waiting this morning at the store, seemed to be the Playstation 3's Blu-ray player. One guy said they were "giving it away" and another guy said he was just going to tell his wife he bought it for the Blu-ray.

None of the people pre-ordered games. There was some excited talk about Resistance: Fall of Man, and a bit about Fight Night 3, but in general people seemed to feel like there would be plenty of games to go around come launch.

Funny enough, two guys arrived at the very last minute, not to pre-order the PS3, but to pick up pre-ordered PS2 games. Neither seemed to be in rush to buy the PS3 just yet.

The store employee told me that the pre-orders bought the people a spot in line when they open on launch day, but if you're not there when the doors open you lose your spot.

He also claimed that the nearby Best Buy was only getting two and that GameStop and EB were getting "75 to 80 percent of the Playstation 3s."

Sheesh, I hope that's not true, that would mean all but 20 percent of the next-gen consoles are already spoken for. Brian Crecente

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