A Dick Smith near where I work there was this huge line of people. I didn't know what it was so I asked one of the people and they mentioned the game sales. The thing is that this Dick Smith always had a crappy ancient games library with nothing worthwhile and it is common sense that they are likely to only have 1 or 2 consoles available for the sale and that they would be snapped up by staff before the doors open.
After a little while, most of those people walked out empty handed because that store never had much to sell anyways. Most Dick Smith stores have really crappy games stock (at least in Sydney) so this shouldn't have been a surprise.