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.

Sony’s “booth” was quite unlike Nintendo’s carefully planned Wii area, and more like an expo unto itself. With PSP, PS2 and of course PS3 displays all competing for the square miles of floor space, the place was a zoo, but also held an impressive managerie of kiosks harboring playable titles. The PS3 games themselves were powered by late-release dev kits that were clearly displayed behind glass, and the titles sure looked pretty at those high resolutions, even if they were a bit PS2-ish in their controls and gameplay. Warhawk was of course the exception, and there were plenty of people waiting to get a shot at the action. We captured most of the chaos to share with you, so click on for the shots.

After swearing to the Nintendo booth staff that yes we bow at the feet of Miyamoto, no we've never touched a Sony device before in our lives, and yes we'd like to skip the mile long line to see the Wii, we managed to find ourselves in Nintendo's special little (or not so little) Wii paradise. There were playables galore, though that "27 playable titles" they mentioned at the keynote was a bit misleading. Sure, you could grab a Wiimote and start making a fool of yourself in any one of 27 different ways, but most of the playable stuff was actually just a tech demo or a mini game. Luckily, the big names like Zelda, Mario and Red Steel were there in force, and the good times were aplenty even with the tech demos. We'll have our impressions of the Wiimote pretty soon, but for now we've got a whole slew of pics from the booth, so take a look.

It’s quite refreshing to see so many "World’s ____s" at Samsung’s booth. This time we’ve got
the World’s First 10 Megapixel Cameraphone, the World’s Best HSDPA Handset, and the World’s First Mobile WiMAX rig. We
got hands ons with their new T509 slimphone, href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/search/?q=b600">B600 10 megapixel cameraphone, their href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/search/?q=i310">8GB i310, href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/search/?q=s4300">S4300 musicphone, href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/search/?q=z540">Z540 Vodafone phone (which happens to remind one a little much
of the V3x), the Z510,  D520 slim slider, Cingular’s forthcoming D407, and, of course, some Samsung execs shooting
the breeze about their devices.

src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung002.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung003.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung004.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung005.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung006.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung007.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung008.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung009.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung010.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung011.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung012.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung013.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung014.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung015.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung016.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung017.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung018.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung019.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung020.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung021.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung022.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung024.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung025.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung026.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung028.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung029.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung030.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung044.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung045.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung048.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung049.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung050.jpg" alt="" /> src="http://www.engadget.com/media/2006/04/samsung051.jpg" alt="" />

Motorola usually has a pretty nice booth, but this CTIA they've injected a couple extra ounces of fancy, being they didn't have a whole lot of new gear to show off this time around. The PEBL amongst pebbles gag got a little old, but they needed to (and did) step up their booth's aesthetic. And you know when we start going on and on about booth aesthetics, we're pretty tapped for some news, so check out the CTIA eye candy after the break.