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Okami Producer Weighs in on PS3 vs. Xbox 360

Shinji Mikami, Resident Evil creator and current boss at Platinum Games (formerly Seeds, formerly Clover) has announced the start-up developer is going to get down to work. But on what? In a recently posted 1Up interview from last TGS (thanks for the leisurely update!), Platinum Games cohort and Okami producer Atsuhi Inaba (pictured) expresses interest in the Wii and DS. But what about the PS3 and Xbox 360? Inaba says:

So if it’s a concept that will be matching the Japanese market, we’re going to try to probably concentrate on the Japanese market, but of course the Western market is the biggest market now, so we are concerned about the Western market, and have the Western market in mind. We might even do some testing specifically in the Western market to create a game…. To be honest, if we’re going to consider the Western market, we should be thinking of creating a game on the 360; however, the 360 is not doing that good in Japan, and we’re a Japanese studio, so do we want to ignore Japan? And let’s think about the European market. Well, is 360 doing good there? No. So OK, what about PS3? Well, how well the PS3 is doing is still kind of vague, you don’t know where to go with PS3.

Multi-platform anyone? Seems to be suiting Inaba’s former employer Capcom just fine. Inaba Profile [1Up via Go Nintendo via DS Fanboy][Pic]


January 16, 2008
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Inaba Teases Us With “Redone” Okami

Our 2007 Game Of The Year awards weren’t a factual representation of my game of the year. See, living in a PAL nation, I didn’t get Okami until early 2007. And had I been able to vote for it, Mario Galaxy and Uncharted may as well have packed their bags and gone home. Many of you will share similar sentiments. Which is why seeing Okami producer Atsushi Inaba teasing us with how much he’d like to do a reworked version of the game hurts. Like nails being driven into the spine. When asked which Clover games he’d like to go back and work on again, he answers: In a purely creative sense, it would be Viewtiful Joe. I’d like to really wring all of the inherent potential out of the concept. Another idea would be to redo Okami, like the recent DS Zelda. There are ideas we weren’t able to include in both games which are still in our minds.

This is probably the cruellest sentence of 2008 so far. Fuck you, Inaba. Seeds of Change [Next-Gen]