The graph indicates how much money was spent on buying four different types of games all around the world during a six-year interval.
Overall, it is explicit that handheld games have been the most popular ones within the period; also, online games have gained a reputation during the last years.
Focusing on console and handheld games, what stands out from the scheme is that at first, these two were the only available types. In more detail, in the first year of investigation six billions of dollars were spent on console games; while it was double for handheld. Moreover, whereas console games followed a downward trend to decline to nearly three billion sales in 2006; handheld games started to earn more popularity to a peak of 18 million in the same year.
Returning to mobile and online games, it can be seen that with a minor difference, the latter had more fans in comparison with the former; although the sales figure for mobile games was a bit more than online games’ until 2005, the information on online games took over of its opponent in 2006 to reach approximately 9 million in the