That's true but they did also increase the price of both the console and games. Still not a bad showing so far. I'll be curious to see how ps5 does.

I would imagine the hit should be a lot less if Modern Warfare is anything to go by as the RT implantation is pretty minor unless they changed it for Black Ops.

I would w8 for the geforce 3060 ti over the 3070, it should offer better price/perf, 500W Power unit should be enough even if you go with 3070. A520 motherboard is better than X570, X570 might give you 0.1% better performance but it's a waste of money.

Than ofc you should get a 2TB Corsair mp400 ssd instead. This are my recommendations, I have build 3 PCs before to friends so you can trust me, believe me.

It's not bad at all. Is 200k Yen your budget limit or is that just coincidence? 

That said, I would have waited for AMDs RX 6000 GPUs and possibly as well for the 3060Ti. Because from the looks of it, the 3060Ti might be much more bang for the bucks, and the RX 6000 look like they're a real contender this time around.

The RX 6800 is more expensive than the 3070, but also somewhat faster by the first benchmarks and comes with 16GB of RAM instead of just 8, which is probably where the price difference comes from. The much more powerful 6800XT is just $80 more expensive and a much better buy, but at that point, we're already $150 above the 3070. If that's too much for you, then the 3070 is a fine choice. 

AMD couldn't keep up with Nvidia for about 5-6 years, having been forced to concentrate all their ressources and efforts into the development of the Zen Architecture and thus neglecting their GPU division. That why AMD GPUs got a pretty bad rep, and the GPU mining craze didn't help matters, either. But Navi already significantly closed the gap towards NVidia that accumulated over the years and Big Navi looks like it will beat Ampere. The only real question mark lies with their Raytracing performance, which is expected to be somewhat below that of NVidia, but nobody knows how much of a difference it will make be between the two in that regard the end.

My bad. I took your comment regarding the numerous and lengthly cut scenes as a complain and, as such, I thought you were a bit disappointed with the game.

My appologies.

Looks like a good system to me, and quite balanced. Absolut overkill for 1080p, perfect for 1440p and maybe a tad short for 4K.

A shame you can't tweak a few more parts other than the motherboard, but that's only nitpicking.

I'll bring in a slide from AMD's presentation so you can see what the cards achieve in 1440p, which probably will be your resolution of choice:

As you can see, the 6800XT is mostly in front, sometimes slightly behind, sometimes just a tad in front, and sometime in front by a significant lead. And with 16GB VRAM, it certainly won't run into a bottleneck here anytime soon. The 10GB of the 3080 should be good enough in that regard, too, but might run into some limits in a few years time if you don't upgrade your PC on a regular basis.

The 6800XT is supposedly 50 dollar cheaper, but with supply limits and scalpers trying to make money out of the situation, the msrp price can't be guaranteed for either card, so we'll have to see how that shakes out.

Oh! My bad. I understood it the other way around (the downisde of not sleeping enough).

My only change would be regarding the RAM setup. Given what we know about Ryzen, a 4x 8GB set would work better than a 2x 16GB one, and 3200MHz CL16 is on the low end, tho perfectly capable. A 3600 CL16 kit would give you better results, but it's also expensive.

Overall it's a good system. As others have said, because the new AMD gpus are quite close to launch, I'd certainly wait for them and the reviews before making a final decision. A word of caution though as historically, AMD has had worse drivers than Nvidia which is why I had problems recommending AMD GPUs to anyone. Sometimes you have to wait a few days to a week for game ready drivers from AMD while Nvidia typically has them ready day 1 or before. Not to mention all of the driver issues the 5000/Vega experienced during and even months after their release regarding the gpu itself.

But it's also why it's best to wait for the reviews before making a decision as AMD might have improved on those aspects this time around as well. Personally if they are very close, I'd go with Nvidia.

The latest Yakuza is definitely the best Yakuza game as a vacation replacement. You can go to so many places and can explore so many buildings from the inside. There is also lots of detail for me to practice my Japanese reading. It also feels a lot more like vacation thanks to the turn based combat where I can just mindlessly grind without having to button mash all of the time.

The substories also seem to be extra wholesome.