The chart below shows the global sales of different kinds of digital games from 2000 to 2006.

The graph indicates how much money was spent on buying four different types of

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all around the world during a six-year interval.

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, it is explicit that handheld

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have been the most popular ones within the period;

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, online

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have gained a reputation during the

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years. Focusing on console and handheld

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, what stands out from the scheme is that at

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these two were the only available types. In more detail, in the first year of investigation six

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dollars were spent on console

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;

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it was double for handheld.

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console

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followed a downward trend to decline to nearly three billion sales in 2006; handheld

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started to earn more popularity to a peak of 18 million in the same year. Returning to mobile and online

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, it can be seen that with a minor difference, the latter had more fans in comparison with the former;

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the sales figure for mobile

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was a bit more than online

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’ until 2005, the information on online

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took over of its opponent in 2006 to reach approximately 9 million in the final stage.