Game sales drive online shopping in the 2007 U.S. holiday season

Online holiday spending in America through December 27 nears $28 billion, up 19% versus a year ago. The period between Thanksgiving and Christmas even had a 21% gain.

Stay-at-home shoppers spent $24.57 billion between November 1 - December 31 in 2006, during the same period last year they spent $29.17, a 19% rise.

We’ve known for a while now that video game sales are driving the market, because of them being the fastest-growing sector. But Kotaku reports that total sales of hardware and software were up 129% from 2006, according to market researchers Comscore. It’s really not that surprising, I bought my games online in December and saved about 30% on retail prices. Everything’s cheaper in in online shops like our Amazon Store.