The bar chart illustrates how many various types of digital games were sold between 2000 and 2006 in billion of dollars.
Overall, Mandheld games in every year was the most popular option. Also mobile and online games were increasing their sales throughout this period of time, and only console games were declining their revenue.
On the one hand, in 2000-2001, on Mandheld games companies earned about 12 billion dollars, since 2002 their profit was between 12 and 18 billions, and in 2006 the games were sold almost to 18 billion dollars. In 2000, console games were popular and sold on 6 billion, and since then they began to lose their popularity. In 2006, their sales reached less than 3 billion.
On the other hand, online games that appeared only in 2001, and mobile games in 2002, started to reach their target audience very quickly. The first three years, they weren’t sold well, but in 2005, there were sold games for about 6 billions, and in 2006, earnings from these games exceeded the mark of 6 billions.