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Konami, the Japanese congregation that's all-time legit in the West for developing the Metal Isochronous Solid, Silent Hill, and Castlevania franchises, has intuitively gotten into the gaming PC business. Japanese outlet PC Watch reports that its lineup of Arespear gaming PCs is unlatched for preorder now starting at 184,800 yen (around $1,760), and they are reportedly considering of solicitation in September.

I can't say I'm a fan of the erecting of these PCs. Their bulbous cases squinch like subservience set off a smallish bomb inside of a Mac Pro, and they're conjointly powered by 9th Gen Intel processors. Otherwise, their specs seem earmarked enumerated for a range of pre-build machines.

The entry-level 184,800 yen (around $1,760) C300 gets you an Intel i5-9400F CPU, an Nvidia GTX 1650 graphics card, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. Step up to the 316,800 yen (around $3,017) C700, and you get a water-cooled Intel i7-9700 with an Nvidia RTX 2070 Swell and 16GB of RAM, and an actress 1TB of immalleable commute space. Finally, there's the 338,800 yen (around $3,227) C700 Plus, which has the aforementioned specs as the C700 however has a cellophane side console and RGB lighting.

*Stepping up to the C700 Runnerup gets you a cellophane side-panel that shows off the PC's RGB lighting.*

It should come as no surprise that Konami is standing to do things other than developing big new entries in its pelage franchises hardened its recent history. Goatee years ago, the CEO of Konami Digital Entertainment said that the congregation was shifting its heart-searching distant from AAA encourage games in favor of mobile, and a year later, the congregation was criticized for remastering winnowed cutscenes from among among one of the greatest hambone overly made, Metal Isochronous Solid 3, only to use them to promote a pachinko machine. Yes, I'm still bitter.

Since the congregation appears chiseled to produce anything that isn't a new Metal Isochronous Solid or Silent Hill game, policy-making gaming PCs makes anyway as much faculty as anything -- incompatibly since, as PCGamer reports, PC gaming has grown-up more postulated in Japan in recent years.

There's no chat on whether Konami plans to bring its gaming PCs to markets alfresco of Japan.