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. You should write at least 150 words.

The chart illustrates the profits made from video

games

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across various categories over a span of six years. Generally speaking, it can be observed that most of these figures follow an upward trend, with the exception of console devices. Upon closer inspection, we can see that handheld

games

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dominated the market for the entirety of the period, overshadowing all three of its competitors as the statistics only continued to rise over time. In the mid-2000s, the form of entertainment reached its highest peak yet, at around eighteen billion dollars. Moving from

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, another notable feature of

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chart is that both online and phone

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weren't available from the beginning, having only garnered some popularity by 2001 and 2002 respectively.

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, they began to rise with an even steeper trendline than handheld devices.

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, it can be predicted that their sales will overtake portable consoles in the future.

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, arcade

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only fell

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in obscurity, despite being prominent

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handheld

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in 2000. Over six years, its profits nearly halved, having only been able to make three billion in 2006

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to its six billion dollars in sales at the beginning of the 21st century.