I'll say.  What Capcom really said was that they would be estatic if it sold what Okami did on PS2.  Which would be 270K. 

So you gotta guess Capcom wants to see 100-200K sales.

 And that's exactly why I'm not going to get rid of my PS2 copy of Okami - may be worth a pretty good chunk in the future, given the extremely limited number of them and the extremely high quality of the game.

I'll forever have both copies. XD

Why would someone need to be a "Wiimote cheerleader" to prefer the Wiimote control setup?  Have you already played the Wii Okami and can say it's not better?

I think ameratsu didn't play Okami at all, otherwise he would have agreed that the painting was quite horrible in the PS2 version, something that everyone that played the Wii game so far says is excellent now.

Well if he wants to wait and try it out for himself before deciding if it's better that's fine.   But I will say this - Painting with a Wii controller will sure grab peoples imagination in a much more positive light than trying to paint with an analog stick (which was cumbersome).  That alone could help boost sales of the Wii version, that is, if anyone even knows about it.

with the way most wii third party games sell (especially in japan), there's a small chance of 1 mil world wide but 250k is far more likely.

500k in USA alone. i think wii fans will love this

Well I have the PS2 version and I can say with confidence that painting sucked in it. Half the time the game didn't recognize what I was trying to do. Fortunately you get infinite chances when you fail, but it was tiresome.

yes, i played the ps2 version. and yes, the painting was frustrating in the ps2 version. i found after you got the hang of it, it was pretty easy... though sometimes getting it to recognize the pattern you haphazardly drew was indeed aggravating. With a game as as great as Okami, you take the little bad with the far larger good.

if anything, I'm sick of people equating wiimote controls as inherently superior controls. All i heard after the release of RE4 is how great the controls were and for many people they loved it. I'm sure many people here swear by it... which is fine.
If you take a game like No more Heroes, i think it would lose a huge amount of it's fun factor if you stripped away the wii controls. However, for something like RE4, my preference lies with dual analog controls. Okami could be the same case (perfer dual analog overall vs wiimote overall) for all i know, that's why i am reserving judgment until i try it for myself.

I will make a thread saying which i like more and why after I try them both.

I own both versions of RE4 and extremely dislike the old analog controls now.  While it's true not all games are improved by the Wiimote, there is a reasonable basis behind the idea that Okami could be improved, which is that the most frustrating gameplay mechanic would be streamlined.