According to Reuters, a United States District Court judge from the Northern District of California has rejected a Sony-approved settlement over a PlayStation credits class action lawsuit. The plaintiffs claimed that Sony overcharged for digital games distributed through its monopolized PlayStation Store, and Sony agreed to settle the lawsuit by allocating $7.8 million in PlayStation credits to millions of PlayStation Network users. However, the judge denied the settlement for a variety of reasons, including the fact that ‘coupon settlements’ such as this one are ‘generally disfavored’. The motion fails to include an estimated recovery had the proposed class prevailed on […]
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