The bar chart illustrates the worldwide sales of various types of digital games from 2002 to 2006.
Overall handheld games showed the highest amount of sales over the given period of time followed by online games. For mobile games the sales showed a quite steady increase. Whereas the sales for Console games decline from 2002 to 2006.
The sales of handheld games worldwide increase from approximately from $12 billion in 2000 to around $18 billion in 2006. While the overall sales for Console games showed a significant downfall to just around $4 billion after remaining nearly a steady from 2002 to 2003 at approximately $16 billion.
Moreover mobile games showed the most dramatic increase in sales after being nearly at 0 for first two years before reaching its peak of almost $7 billion in 2006. The growth in sales of both online games and mobile games fluctuated overtime before being surpassed by online games in 2006. The online games sales was around just $1 billion in the initial year but reached almost $8 billion in 2006.