Summer Game Fest is Nigh

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**Jeff Gerstmann** (1:22)
Hey, what's happening, everybody? Welcome to the program. It is June 1st, 2026, and we are here. This is The Jeff Gerstmann Show. I'm your host for this week's edition of the show. My name is Jeff Gerstmann. Hello, how are you doing? How are things in your neck of the June, you know? School, a school getting out all over the place, and it's, that's a, that's a, oh, boy. It's going to be an interesting summer around these parts. But, but yeah, that's been kind of the big thing that's been happening over here is, one of my kids has already done with school for the year, and, and the other one is on her last week, this week. And a lot of this stuff is ill time, you know, like having summer game fast happen, what seems to always be the, the same, the, the same week as kids getting out of school and stuff is, is, is a bit annoying. There's also another thing that happens. This is now the second year that this has happened. I don't know if they're, cause I'm in Southern California, which is fine.
And the weekend of the Summer Game Fest, like go see games days, are the same days as there's in, in Pasadena, which is a bit of a drive, but there's not, I think it's in Pasadena. There's, there's some kind of retro game convention show thing that I always want to go check out and see if there's any stuff worth picking up or whatever. But it's always the same weekend as summer game fest. And so there's a part of me that thinks like one of these years, I'm just going to pack all my appointments onto one day and then take the other day and go drive out to Pasadena and see whatever the heck the retro game thing is all about. I assume that buying old games has become even more foolish, I think, as the years have gone on, because everyone has access to the Internet. I think a lot of prices get marked up in a lot of the same ways. Not that it's about ripping people off for like, oh, I found a thing that should be worth way more, that you're selling for less or whatever, like there's typically like a bit of price variance that makes going out and looking for stuff attractive, like it's supposed to be, at least a little bit, right? But now I think you've just got a lot of people that are, and good on them, they know what they've got, they know what it's worth. And they're doing their thing, and it just is what it is. But it does take a little bit of the shine off of that stuff. But I still want to, I don't know, I want to make it. I see people back East, it feels like there's always some kind of like Long Island retro show or Philadelphia retro experience, whatever the fuck is going on. It seems like there's a bunch of stuff like that out there. And here, I don't know, it just doesn't seem like there's that much. When I was driving out to Las Vegas for Dice, I passed through, I don't know, Barstow, like I went through a bunch of little towns and there was one that had a bunch of signs up for like a video game convention. And I thought like, oh man, I should drive back out here in a couple weeks when this thing is and check this thing out because I bet it's going to be so small that that'll just be fun in a weird way. But I did not make it back out.
But yeah, that's basically the push and pull, right? Summer Game Fest coming up later this week. Of course, today is the day of Sony's state of play. And we'll see what that has to offer. They've already kind of pre-announced that Wolverine will be shown in some capacity there.