Producer blames Okami's demise on bad timing

No one really knows why Clover Studio's Okami failed to light the gaming world on fire, only that if the sheer amount of people who claim to have loved the game actually bought the game, we wouldn't have to ask ourselves this question on an semi-annual basis. Now, in a recent preview for Okamiden, its spiritual successor on the DS, Capcom Producer Motohide Eshiro has weighed in with his own take on