Sony is set to pay $7.85 million in a proposed settlement over claims that it restricted competition for digital PlayStation games.
The lawsuit focuses on Sony stopping third-party retailers from selling game-specific digital download codes in 2019, leaving the PlayStation Store as the main place to buy digital games.
About 4.4 million US PlayStation accounts are included, you must have purchased a specific eligible game through the PlayStation Store between April 1, 2019, and December 31, 2023.
If your PSN account is active and you qualify, you generally don’t need to submit a claim. The settlement proposes automatically sending compensation as PSN account credit.
The settlement still needs final approval. The final hearing is scheduled for October 15, 2026.
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Sony’s lawyers are arguing that it should already be obvious that PlayStation digital games aren’t actually owned by the people who buy them.
In the lawsuit, Sony points to its Software Product Licensing Agreement, which says: “The Software is licensed to you, not sold.”
Sony also makes a more unusual argument: if a customer actually owned a digital game, another person wouldn’t be able to buy the same copy.
They use Resident Evil Requiem as an example. One customer bought the game on February 14, 2026, and another bought it on February 25 for $69.99.
Sony’s argument is basically: if the first customer actually owned the digital game, how could Sony sell the same game to someone else