Digital games

The chart illustrates the information about the sale of different types of digital games around the world between 2000 and 2006.

Overall, the most popular kind of games in these years was a handheld by a wide margin.Moreover, the financial situations of all game varieties were improving year by year, however, console games were an exception.In addition,there were only two types of games,such as console and handheld, until 2001.

The handheld games were absolute leaders in the list for 7 years.If we compare the results in 2000 (10 billion $) with 2006(18 billion $),we can see that the income of these games almost doubled.Another thing that I must mention is that the sum of other games' income was lower than handheld games' revenue until 2006.

Secondly, in terms of mobile and online games, these types of games achieved unpredictable levels.For example, mobile games reached up to 7 billion $ in 5 years,while online games’ earnings amounted to 9 billion $ in 6 years.Furthermore, until 2000 there were only two types of digital games:console and handheld.There was the most minimal difference between earnings of them in 2000,which was equal to 5 billion $.Nevertheless, in 2006 this number already increased to 15 billion $.