The bar graph shows the global sales (in billions of dollars) of different types of digital games between 2000 and 2006. Write a report for a university, lecturer describing the information shown below. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant.

The bar graph gives

the

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data about how the earnings from four types of digital

games

changed from 2000 to 2006. Units are measured in

dollars

. It is noticeable that handheld

games

were the most popular type of

games

over the period given. Generally, there was an increase in the

money

got from selling these kinds of products except for console

games

There were about 12

billion

dollars

got from selling handheld

games

in 2000.

This

figure generally rose and reached its peak in 2006 at almost 18

billion

.

By contrast

, the

money

spent on console

games

decreased from 6

billion

in 2000 to just about 3

billion

dollars

in 2006. Of the four types of digital

games

, the

money

spent on console

games

was the lowest. In 2001, there were just about 1

billion

dollars

spent on online

games

which increased to about 2

billion

, which was similar to that of mobile phone

games

. In the next three years, the

money

spent globally on mobile phone

games

generally was higher than that of online

games

.

However

,

this

trend completely changed in 2006 when about 8

billion

dollars

was spent on