Microsoft's E3 booth tour

It only seemed appropriate to finish off our booth tours with (one of) the biggest at E3 -- Microsoft's. We heard from a little birdie the figure on this thing was well into seven digits, and it's really no wonder. Similar to last year's, the giant two story building they installed on their huge spread of land in the south hall was nothing less than enormous, and that's to say nothing of the mammoth area they had for demo pods, their trailer theater, and the mini-booth dedicated to their newly rebranded Games for Windows initiative. Make no mistake about it, Microsoft showed at E3 and they weren't kidding around.

[Shizney @ May 13th 2006 7:32PM]

The ps3 will dominate the xbox and da little wii wii.

[Andrew Miguelez @ Jul 14th 2007 9:09AM]

HAHAHAHA, you are SO WRONG it's ridiculous. What a stupid comment then... what a pathetic comment now! Great job. Thanks for the laughs!

[will z @ May 13th 2006 7:38PM]

looks awesome!

[Big Ed @ May 13th 2006 7:39PM]

Microsoft easily had the best booth of all three companies. I dig the contemporary style.

[hassan @ May 13th 2006 7:42PM]

Microsoft couln't have made their booth ne better. It looks like fun just by looking at the pics and vids can't even imagine how much it must be to actually be there.

[crzyjamaican46 @ May 13th 2006 7:46PM]

I hav 2 giv Props 2 Micro$oft on that. They have the money so y not put it 2 good use.

[Petey Boi @ May 13th 2006 7:46PM]

Im not putting down the 360 but it lost its new console smell!

[Ian Eisenberg @ May 13th 2006 7:58PM]

You know those Sci-Fi movies where the evil company uses their hot new technology to take control of the minds of it's consumers? Kinda reminds me of that... I'm just sayin'

[Soum @ May 13th 2006 8:02PM]

Holy flaming crapburgers, that is so AWESOME!!!!!!!! I wish I could go to E3, but then again, I'm not even out of Middle School.

[Chaos @ May 13th 2006 8:05PM]

Crzyjamaican46: Soum isnt even out of middleschool, and still, he can form comprehensable sentances. Either you havent passed 2nd grade, or you should try going back to school. Try it. People will understand you better.

[Ben @ May 13th 2006 8:12PM]

That looks off the hinges. Makes me want to buy another 360 :)

[Chris @ May 13th 2006 8:13PM]

looks sweet i wish i could go. in 3 years i can though.... sigh :(

[Charles W. @ May 13th 2006 8:29PM]

And all those people that couldn�t eat in the world...

[Shmoe @ May 13th 2006 8:36PM]

Looks great, but I'd prefer they spent the money getting Vista out on time.

[Coolty @ May 13th 2006 9:01PM]

/me yawn

[SHOTT3R @ May 13th 2006 9:36PM]

Ya know Chaos, before you go lecturing people on their grammar/spelling, you may wish to learn how to spell "comprehensible" and "sentences" your damn self.

Just sayin'...

[Revrant @ May 13th 2006 9:41PM]

isn't* comprehensible* sentences* haven't*

Not attacking you, just a little 'don't throw stones with a catapult nearby...' Anyhow, what's going to be hilarious is how many will blow this off as "lame" or "boring", check them for later reference, we're going to see the flight of the fanboys here, no grey area to behold.

[Arjun @ May 13th 2006 10:31PM]

Chaos: Learn how to spell before you start criticizing someone's grammar. (Even if I do agree with you.)

Anyway, pretty sweet booth MS has got going. I wish I was there :(

[Katie @ May 13th 2006 10:54PM]

A colleague of mine went. I only get to go to CES, wah.

Hilarious that we still refer to these as "booths," BTW.

[autodas @ May 13th 2006 11:12PM]

how did the 14 year old looking kid get in.

[steve @ May 14th 2006 12:09AM]

holy crap
thats awesome.......
i wish i could go to e3
and not just read about it

[Arochone @ May 14th 2006 1:00AM]

"Chaos: Learn how to spell before you start criticizing someone's grammar. (Even if I do agree with you.)"
Ehh...it's one thing to be unable to spell a big 5 syllable word that few people would even notice was spelled wrong (I sure didn't)...it's quite another to be unable to spell 'have' or 'to' or 'give' or any other word in that post....

As for M$ at E3...one word: sweeet....lol
If only they'd focus on the X-Box and kill their PC software line...then they'd be a damn good company.

[Stephen @ May 14th 2006 1:37AM]

They didn't spend hardly anything on that, it is almost the same booth they had last year. Smart redesign if you ask me. New paint job and voila!

[Shane @ May 14th 2006 3:56AM]

Kill their software line?? Like Windows or Office?? What is wrong with your head Arochone??

[Hap @ May 14th 2006 5:56AM]

Looks retro, to bad i wasn't able to sneak in this year, damn school! and what the hell, no booth babes, thats like 70% WHY E3 exists.

[Ultim8fury @ May 14th 2006 7:08AM]

Looks a lot like last years setup in a slightly different configuration. Didn't go this year unfortunately :(

[Tiremfej @ May 14th 2006 10:36AM]

I was thinking the same thing Ultim8fury. I was there last year as well, didn't go this year.

[Zipbow @ May 14th 2006 1:36PM]

I don't know... the layout looks nice and all, but isn't the idea of E3 to show off their new products? Wouldn't the fact that most of their stations are enclosed make it difficult for bypassers to even get a peek of what's going on?

On the other hand, after standing in line for hours at the other booths, it's good to finally sit down and experience what they have to offer.

[scoot @ May 15th 2006 2:08AM]

thats the best they got.hahaaha.go sony!!!!!

[student organizations manager @ Aug 26th 2006 9:45PM]

Excellent camera work! Funny to think a few years ago MS wanted nothing to do with the console games market.

[JohnDoe303 @ Jul 13th 2007 9:25PM]

great booth no wonder the gaming dept is over 6 billion in the hole.. did they have an RLOD section?