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Sony’s $7.85M PlayStation Store antitrust settlement has been preliminarily approved

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Sony’s $7.85M settlement over digital game monopoly claims got preliminary approval. 4.4M US PlayStation owners are eligible. Final hearing is Oct 15.

A US federal court has preliminarily approved a $7.85 million settlement in an antitrust class action alleging that Sony monopolised the market for digital PlayStation games by eliminating competition from third-party retailers. The settlement, approved on 8 April, covers approximately 4.4 million PlayStation owners in the United States, according to court filings.

The case, Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment, was filed in May 2021 in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiff Agustin Caccuri alleged that Sony violated the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Act when it stopped allowing third-party retailers to sell game-specific download codes on 1 April 2019.

Before that date, retailers like Amazon, Best Buy, and GameStop sold digital download codes for PlayStation games, often at discounted prices...

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