I was wondering if Clover Studio has any plans for bringing Okami to Revolution since the Freehand style Controller seems to be just perfect for it.
Matt responds: That makes a lot of damned sense for a couple of reasons. First, as you noted, the mechanics in the game call for players to actually draw symbols and circles on-screen, among other things, and this makes the setup perfectly suited to the Revolution's freehand-style controller. Previously, we speculated that Okami might make a great DS game, but now that we know the intricacies of the Revolution controller, there's no doubt that it'd make an even better title for Nintendo's next console.
Just as importantly, a port of Okami to Revolution with added support for the amazing controller would make up for the travesty of the game somehow skipping a GameCube release in favor of PlayStation 2. Any evaluation of the marketplace would show that GCN owners eat games like this up, a truth that Clover Studios of all developers should know very well. After all, it was the software house's Viewtiful Joe that sold several hundred thousand copies on GCN and inevitably bombed on PlayStation 2. (Of course, it did release for Nintendo's system first, to be fair.)
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Clover eventually explored the option of bringing Okami over to Revolution. But for now, there are no announced plans for such a move and naturally Capcom will only reiterate that Okami is coming to PlayStation 2.
Still, keep the dream alive and start your petitions now. This is as good a cause as any for Nintendo nuts to start rioting over, and perhaps someone over in Japan will eventually take notice.