I was so glad that Capcom ported Okami to the Wii and the game was excellent controlling it with the Wiimote. Unfortunately sales were very poor and I thought that would be it for Okami goodness on Nintendo consoles (or any console as the PS2 game sold poorly too) but then came news of Okamiden for DS which was more than welcome news.

These games deserve to sell by the bucket as they are simply awesome! Capcom’s Motohide Eshiro has hinted that there could possibly be an Okami on 3DS too, but first the DS version needs to be well received and sell well. Fingers crossed…

“I actually had a chance to see and get some information about the 3DS yesterday and I think it’s a great system with a lot of potential for game designers — there’s a lot you can do with it. Especially from a graphics stand-point, there’s so much potential there. I’d like to be able to make some games for that in the future, but as far as being approached by Nintendo, I personally haven’t been approached by them to make anything for it as of yet. Maybe someone at Capcom has, but personally speaking I haven’t at this moment.

For Okamiden itself, I don’t think it’s unfortunate that we couldn’t make it a 3DS game. I’m very happy that it’s a Nintendo DS game because of the touch-screen. We wanted to make it really suited to everything you can do with the touch-screen, so we worked really hard to make sure that those aspects of the game are being fully exploited. That was the main challenge for us to overcome and hopefully when we get this into people’s hands and they start playing it, they’re going to see how great using the touch-screen is. Hopefully they have a really good reaction to Okamiden on the DS and start clamouring for a sequel. Then if they ask for that sequel on the 3DS, well… we’ll see what we can do.”

Thanks ausgamers