The bar chart provides information about the worldwide sales of four different kinds of virtual games from 2000 to 2006.
Overall, the data indicates that the sales revenues of mobile phone games, online games, and handheld games increased, while the figure for console games saw a gradual decrease. In addition, handheld games were the best-selling ones over the given period.
The amount of money from selling handheld games started at around 11 billion dollars, after which it witnessed a steady rise to about 14 billion dollars in 2003, before reaching a peak of nearly 18 billion dollars in 2006.
The sales figure of console games was roughly 6 billion dollars in 2000, while no figure was seen for mobile phone games and Internet-based games. The first revenue of online games was about 0,5 billion dollars in 2001, while that of mobile phone games was 1 billion dollars in 2002. Within three years from 2003 to 2006, turnover from selling games on the Internet and games on mobile phones rose from 2 and 3 to about 9 and 7 billion dollars, respectively. Conversely, the figure for console games dropped by half from 4 to 2 billion dollars during the same period.