VAMatt on 05 March 2017
I will say, the crowd at my local Best Buy (where I preordered) was about 150 people, and the Gamestop in the same shopping center appeared to have about 50 people. At Best Buy, a great many of those people, probably 100 or so, were trying to get units that they had not pre-ordered.
I've been at several console launches, going back to XBox 360. I'm thinking this was the largest crowd I've seen. But, I've never been at the same store for a launch twice. So, my comparison doesn't mean much. Also, midnight launches for consoles just started with the WiiU. So, there have really only been 4 of them that could be reasonably compared based on crowd size.
