The bar graph shows the global sales (in billions of dollars) of different types of digital games between 2000 and 2006.
The graph compares the number of
dollars
in billion
globally spent on four divided devices of digital games
over a period of 6 years.
Overall
, handheld games
were the most popular ones in terms of overall
expenditure during the period shown. It is also
clear that all forms of gaming had an increased spending pattern except for the console games
category.
In 2000, nearly 12 billion
dollars
were spent on handheld games
and about half of this
amount was spent on games
via console. The rising pattern continued for the figure of handheld which remained the most popular type of digital games
reaching almost 18 billion
, in comparison with the falling spending of 4 billion
on console games
.
In 2001, online games
entered the competitive market of gaming with a dramatic increase from only i billion
dollars
in its first year to nearly 9 billion
in the last
year. This
rapid rising pattern could also
be seen in the popularity of gaming through mobile phones experiencing an increase of around 6 billion
dollars
over only a five-year period from 2002 to 2006.Submitted by z.rajabi on
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