The bar chart provides information about the global sales of four different types of games from 2000 to 2008.
Overall, the amount of income from online, console, and handheld games increased, while the reverse was true for mobile phone games.Moreover, handheld games dominated the chart with the highest share in each given period, while online games showed the lowest figure in the first five years.
In the initial year(2000), handheld games and console games were sold for approximately 11 and 6 billion dollars respectively. In the subsequent year, the former experienced a consistent rise to 18 billion dollars until 2008. Meanwhile, the later saw an opposite trend to around 3 billion dollars.
On the other hand, the figure for online games went up from roughly 2 to 4 billion dollars until 2004, while mobile phone games were sold for about 4 billion dollars. In the next two years, the online games were used widely and grew to 8 billion dollars and the figure for mobile phone games experienced a similar trend.