The PSP has been near the top of the sales charts recently and I figured some new PSP owners may not be up to know what great games the system has to offer. With that in mind, every day this week we'll feature a new genre and list the top 5 games (according to metareviews), so no matter what you're into, you'll have some idea of what games you should own. Today the focus is on Sports games and there were so many games tied in this genre that I'd end up with a list of 16 games if I listed all the tied games as equals in rank. With that in mind, I made an executive decision and today going forward with this feature I'll list the top 5 based on Metareview and I'll use reader reviews to sort through ties.

Top 5 Sports games on PSP

1. Virtua Tennis World Tour
2. Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Remix
3. MLB 06: The Show
4. Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2007
5. Hot Shots Golf: Open Tee

I don't play sports games, so I'm not sure if this list is accurate to the average sports fan. What do you think about these 5 games? What sports games aren't on this list that you think every PSP owner should have?

If you missed it, you can check out our previous top 5 game lists:

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[Data Via Metacritic]

Arguably the greatest tennis franchise ever made is set to make its reappearance on the PSP as Sega announced it's developing Virtua Tennis 3, which will be released spring 2007.

Here are some of the new additions Sega has announced for the sequel:

• An all-new World Tour Mode that has 10 new mini-games;
• Court Games enables you to play Virtua Tennis' great mini-games via multi-player against up to three other people;
• Five set matches are now available;
• A new roster of athletes:
  
• Women: Amelie Mauresmo, Maria Sharapova (Yes!!!), Venus Williams, Martina Hingas, Nicole Vaidisova, Lindsay Davenport and Slovakian Daniela Hantuchova.
• Men: Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Andy Roddick, Tim Henman, Lleyton Hewitt, James Blake, Mario Ancic, Gael Monfils, Taylor Dent, David Nalbandian, Sebastien Grosjean, Juan Carlos Ferrero and Tommy Haas.

Aside from Virtua Tennis on the N-Gage, every version I've played has been surprisingly fun and addictive. I don't think there was a lot to fix with the game's predecessor, Virtua Tennis World Tour, but it's nice to see Sega add in new features like Court Games.

(Via UK IGN)