The bar graph shows the global sales in billions of dollars of different types of digital games between 2000 and 2006

The bar chart illustrates how worldwide sale of variety categories of digital games from 2000 to 2006

Overall, it is clear that mobile games and online games increased , while console games decreased over the period. The handheld games enjoyed the highest sales throughout period.

To begin with, in 2002 the sales of handheld games were higher than the others. mobile phone and online games had the same figure ( 1 billion $ ), while the sales of console games were 5 billion $, compared to about 14 billion$ of handheld games. Global sales of handheld games went up steadily, reaching a peak almost 18 billion in 2006. In the same time, sales of mobile and online games grew to 7 billion $ ad 9 billion $, repectively.

In contrast,with the figure of console games, it fell steadily each years, and went down to around 3 billion $ in 2006