The bar chart provides information about revenue obtained from the global sales of different types of digital games over a period of 6 years.
Handheld games had the highest sales from 2000 to 2006. An increasing trend can be observed in both online games and mobile games. The purchase of console games declined over the course of 6 years.
Handheld games were highly preferred as their value increased gradually from 11 billion dollars in 2000 to about 18 billion in 2006. Online games and mobile phone games came into the picture in 2001 and 2002, respectively. Since then, their sales had increased from 1 billion in 2001 to 8 billion in 2006 for online games and from 2 billion to a little over 6 billion in 2006 for mobile phone games.
The console games were least preferred, and the money put into buying console games dropped steadily, and their revenue plunged to half its initial amount in 2006.