>So I went down to the local Holyoke Mall to interview those waiting in line for the PS3.
Here are the results:

Total People: 48
Best Buy – 20
Target – 16
Circuit City – 12

Hours Waiting:
44 – 1
29 – 1
28 – 2
26 – 2
25 – 19
24 – 5
23 – 3
< 23 - 15 Entrepeneur:
Selling – 36
Keeping – 12
Not Sure – 3

HDTVs:
NO – 35
720p – 2
1080i – 8
1080p – 4

If you’re interested in the details: PS3 Survey Details

A few people of note, the person in line 1st at Best Buy was there for 45 hours, had a 720p HDTV and was keeping it.
A little girl in line at Target, probably not getting one, had been there for a couple hours and didn’t have an HDTV.
The young woman in front of her had a tent and had been there for about 5 hours. She said she already had 3 secured so she was probably keeping it. Her boyfriend and his friend worked at Circuit City and they had someone who they agreed to split the profits on waiting in line there.
The 1 guy in the Circuit City line who had a 1080p HDTV was one away from getting a voucher at 8pm, only 2 people said they’d keep them in the line at Circuit City and they both had HDTV.

My inquiry was well received, overall. I ran into some youngins at Circuit City who seemed to enjoy the concept of someone asking them questions about waiting in line for PS3. The guy at the front of the line at Best Buy told me I was not actually the first one to do this, go fig. I didn’t hear about anyone doing this, and I don’t think anyone was polling for HDTVs but it struck me on the way home – “How many people actually have the TV to handle this” as the results turn out they won’t need the HDTVs because the majority are selling them.

I reserved a PS2 when they first came out, got my first one from EB Games, and after hearing they were bad I tried it out. Good thing I did because it ended up being bad. I sent it back and was able to send the unopened box directly to the eBay buyer after a few pleading emails for their patience due to the replacement coming in.
I got one maybe a month later when they were back in stores.

I saw the PS3 in action inside Best Buy. Every guy who walked by stopped in their tracks. It looks really good, so incredibly clear, and they didn’t even have it on 1080p. It’s going to raise the bar, and that’s good.

All in all it was a good social experiement. It was a little awkward at first, but got into it, and almost everyone was really pleasant about it.