The Global Sales of Different kinds of Digital Games from 2000 to 2006 IELTS Writing Task 1

Only 13 billion dollars worth of handheld gaming sales were made in 2000, but during the ensuing years, this figure rose quickly. Additionally, records show that console sales topped in 2000 at about $6 billion before declining by $3 billion by 2006. In spite of this, the amount of money being spent on console games between 2003 and 2004 stayed the same at little under $4 billion. Additionally, sales of internet games totaled just $1 billion in 2001. Sales of these games continued to rise steadily by $1 billion from that moment on until 2005, when they grew by $9 billion.

Mobile phone games experienced the highest sales at the end of the period, similar to online games. Totaling more than $7 billion, which was a considerable amount in comparison to prior years. However, in 2002, that game only generated a tiny portion of that revenue—possibly around $2 billion.

With sales of slightly under $12 billion for handheld and console games, respectively, in 2000, the former was the market leader. While the latter's figure was around half that amount. The sales of handheld games gradually increased over the course of the following six years, finally reaching a high of about $18 billion. Conversely, console game sales fell over the same time period and peaked in 2006 at $3 billion, which was their lowest level ever. As we turn our attention to online and mobile phone games, we can see that they weren't very well received. Especially when they were first brought to the market (in 2001 and 2002, respectively), as evidenced by their low initial revenue estimates of under $3 billion. Nevertheless, during the following years, both businesses saw a steady rise in their sales figures. With total revenue of approximately $9 billion in 2006, the former became the second best-selling game category. And the latter came in second with a revenue of around $7 billion.

Online games were preceded by mobile phone games as the only genres with data from the first two years. In 2001, the first billion dollars worth of internet games were sold. Next, their sales grew significantly during the following time. Both games sold about 2 and 4 billion dollars each in 2002 and 2004, respectively, keeping the sales levels constant. The revenue from mobile game sales increased by $3 billion, and in 2006, the revenue from online game sales topped $10 billion. While handheld game sales continuously climbed for the duration of the decade, console game sales eventually declined. Around 6 billion dollars' worth of video games were sold on consoles in 2002. But portable game sales more than doubled those of console games during that same time. The console games saw sales drop to half of what they had been in the previous year. However, sales of handheld devices hit 18 billion dollars in 2006.