IELTS WRITING TASK 1 - PRACTICE The bar chart gives information about the sales of 5 types of digital games (mobile phones, online, consoles and handhelds) between 2000 and 2006 worldwide. The information is presented in billions of dollars. Overall, it is clear that most of the money is related to the sales of handheld games. All categories of games showed a noticeable increase, except for console games. Handheld games considerably reached the highest sum of money each year and rose from almost 12 billion dollars in 2000 to just under 18 billions in 2006. On the other hand, games for consoles slightly fell from almost 6 billion dollars to around 3 billions over the same period. Neither online games nor mobile phone games present any sale in 2000, appearing for the first time in 2001 and 2002, respectively. The latter went up from zero to more than 6 billion dollars in 5 years and the former from zero to around 9 billion in six years. Both equate to each other in 2002 and 2004.