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 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 graph illustrates the
sales
around the world of various types of digital
games
between the year 2000 and 2006.
Overall
, the
sales
of Handheld
games
, online
games
and mobile phone
games
increased over the years and handheld
games
were able to make the biggest sale surpassing the others by 2006. Console
games
gradually decreased their global
sales
throughout the years. Handheld
games
made just below 12
billion
in 2000 and were able to elevate their
sales
to nearly 18
billion
within 6 years. Online
games
made their appearance in 2001 and were able to be the second highest-selling digital game in 2006, making around 9
billion
sales
. Mobile phone
games
began their
sales
in 2002, tallying up with online
games
sales
and in 2005 managed to surpass online
games
and achieve 6
billion
dollars in
sales
. Meanwhile, console
games
had
sales
just below 6
billion
dollars in 2000 yet gradually reduced their
sales
, and consecutively had the lowest
sales
, nearly 4
billion
and 3
billion
in 2005 and 2006 respectively.
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