The chart below shows the global sales of different kinds of digital games from 2000 to 2006.
The graph illustrates global
sales
for four types of digital games
—mobile phone
games
, online games
, console games
, and handheld games
—ranging from 2000 to 2006, measured in billions of dollars.
Overall
, handheld games
have consistently been the most popular, with sales
rising from around $10 billion
in 2000 to nearly $18 billion
in 2006. Online games
and mobile phone
games
, introduced in 2001 and 2002 respectively, also
showed significant growth. Sales
for both started at approximately $2 billion
and increased to about $10 billion
and $7 billion
by 2006.
In contrast
, console games
, which had a sales
figure of $6 billion
in 2000, experienced a steady decline, falling to roughly $4 billion
by 2006. This
decline indicates a shift in consumer preference towards other game types over the period.
In summary, by 2006, handheld games
led in sales
, followed by online games
, mobile phone
games
, and console games
. Handheld games
dominated throughout, with console games
losing their second-place status to mobile phone
games
in 2005 and to online games
in 2006.Submitted by khushichhillar on
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