Recently Ubisoft announced a PSP version of the PS360 game Assassin's creed 2, and now EA has announced Dante's Inferno for the PSP, coming from PS360 as well. Is this an important part of publishers' strategies to try and get back to profitability?

It seems like the PSP is gaining some developer support, perhaps to the detriment of the Wii which has rarely gotten versions of PS360 games (usually getting spin-offs and ports of older games in a franchise such as Dead Space Extraction, Dead Rising: CTYD, the Castlevania fighter etc.).

Is this new or has it been going on for a while? Is it just a coincidence?

once Sony said they would start focusing on the psps , tons of games got announcement.
a coincidence?? I think not.

I'm sure sony is making deals and contracts with companies to support the psp.

either way i dont care, sony had a bit of a groggy start and now its getting there act together the psp has got a brilliant line up and so has the ps3, about time too

Assassin's Creed 2 for PSP is not a port, it's entirely different game.

Two EA teams are working on Dante's Inferno, so that's probably not a port, either.

Sony somehow managed to convince western developmers to significantly increase the number of their PSP offerings, which is great.

Don't forget Koller said three quarters of upcoming PSP games have yet to be announced.

That's not what I read regarding Assassin's creed 2:

http://psp.ign.com/articles/973/973545p1.html

Was there some later information about the PSP version?

“Assassin’s Creed” PSP

“One of the first to be very open about jumping back into the PSP world was Ubisoft. The ‘Assassin’s Creed’ idea popped up early. And we were able to announce that this week. That’s been a project in the making for quite a while.” Koller said this game won’t be an attempted port of the forthcoming “Assassin’s Creed 2″: “It’ll be a completely different game, unique to the PSP.”

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/02/27/sony-talks-psp-versions-of-assassins-creed-rock-band-little-big-planet/

=p No PSP threads without Star Scream. It is amazing what Sony is doing.

That was back in February while Ubisoft's announcement was this month... but I wouldn't be surprised if there was some misunderstanding here.

There is no misunderstaning, this is Koller speaking here, not some anonymous Sony clerk - Assassin's Creed for PSP will be a unique game, and it's been in development for quite some time.

Oh, one more thing, since it's OP related - the main reason for no Wii version is probably related to Sony getting some kind of exclusivity. Koller said they've been telling devs to develop 'unique, big franchise games'.

My guess is Dante's Inferno PSP and Assassin's Creed 2 PSP, just like Rockband PSP, will be similar to their PS3/360 counterparts, but only in name.

Embargo on Dante's Inferno PSP ends on April 24 (there was a presentation in London), so we'll soon find out.