Early summer game announcements 2026: Summer Game Fest

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Early summer game announcements 2026: Summer Game Fest

8 June 2026

Mizuho Securities Equity Research Cross-sector Research / Gaming and Electronics

Industry Overview

Early summer game announcements 2026: Summer Game

Fest

New reveals including RE: Veronica, FF7 Revelation (remake part 3), Persona 6

Entertainment, media and internet Impressions from SGF and Xbox Games Showcase

Following from Sony Interactive Entertainment’s State of Play event lastSenior Analyst: week, Summer Game Fest 2026 (running from 5–8 June; main showTakeshi Koyama livestreamed on 6 June, 6:00am JST) and Microsoft’s Xbox Games Showcase+81 3 6202 8265

2026 (livestreamed on 8 June, 2:00am JST) contained plenty of newtakeshi.koyama@mizuho-sc.com

announcements from Japanese game developers.

Consumer electronics

We think the biggest important updates came from Capcom, Sega SammySenior Analyst:

Holdings and Square Enix Holdings. In line with our expectations, CapcomYasuo Nakane

officially unveiled its first major paid DLC for Monster Hunter Wilds (MHWs)+81 3 6202 8124

yasuo.nakane@mizuho-sc.com titled Ascendance and set to release in 2027. Capcom also announced that it is

currently working on bringing MHWs to the Nintendo Switch 2. Plus, Capcom

unveiled Resident Evil Veronica (multi-platform, including Switch 2) with a

2027 launch window, which we think constitutes a surprise.

While sales of MHWs got off to a strong start, thereafter the game reviewed

poorly and repeat sales were sluggish mainly due to a mix of optimization

issues for the PC version and complaints from the franchise’s core player base

about content volume (i.e., difficulty). Player sentiment around MHWs has

improved considerably, but we think there remain a number of concerns about

the aforementioned major paid DLC.