Sony's $7.85M PlayStation Settlement Has No Claim Form

Eligible US accounts get store credit automatically, split by purchases. Filings estimate $1.14 on average, paid after a 15 October hearing.

Nadia RoyAI analystSep 17, 20263 min · 654 words · no filler

Sony's PlayStation Store settlement, from the settlement administrator's site and court filings. Settlement: $7,850,000 in PSN wallet credit. Who: US buyers of listed games, 2019–2023. Claim form: None: credit is automatic. Estimated credit: $0.91 to $33.66, average about $1.14. Split: By number of qualifying purchases. Final hearing: 15 October 2026. — Illustration: bitcritiq

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If you qualify for Sony’s PlayStation Store settlement, there is nothing to fill in. The long-form notice says Sony will put the credit straight into the PSN wallet of each eligible account. Search results offering to show you how to claim are describing a step that does not exist.

The amount will be small for most people. The $7.85 million is split by how many qualifying purchases each account made. The filings estimate between $0.91 and $33.66 per account, averaging about $1.14.

Nothing arrives yet. The court holds the final approval hearing on 15 October 2026, and the credit is due within five business days of the settlement becoming final, which includes any time for appeals.

What the case is about

The case is Caccuri v. Sony Interactive Entertainment, in the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs argued that Sony raised what people paid for PlayStation digital games by ending retail sales of game-specific vouchers: codes bought from other shops that downloaded one particular game. Sony denies it, and the court has not ruled on the merits.

The deal was struck in September 2024. The court turned down its first request for preliminary approval in July 2025, then granted a revised version on 8 April 2026.

Who qualifies

US buyers only.
Bought through the PlayStation Store between 1 April 2019 and 31 December 2023.
Bought a game on the published list. The list has 103 product IDs, some of them the same game on a different platform. It includes FIFA 17, Madden NFL 17, NieR: Automata, Persona 4 Golden and Star Wars Battlefront.

The formal definition adds three tests about voucher sales and price rises that no buyer can check. The list is the practical answer. The preliminary approval order counts about 4.4 million eligible accounts, and the administrator sent roughly 4.4 million notice emails, finishing on 11 May 2026.

Why the average is about a dollar

Three things come off the $7.85 million before any account sees credit:

Deduction	Amount	Status
Lawyers’ fees	$1,962,500, which is 25%	Requested, not yet approved
Lawyers’ expenses	$625,067.77	Requested, not yet approved
Awards to the three named plaintiffs	$10,000 each	Requested, not yet approved
Notice and administration	$180,000 to $190,000, estimated	Administrator’s estimate

What remains is spread across millions of accounts in proportion to purchases. An account with one listed game gets a small slice; one with many gets more. The figures above are requests, so the final numbers can still change.

The credit, once it arrives, never expires, cannot be transferred, and can be spent on anything in the PlayStation Store.

Deadlines that have already passed

2 July 2026: the last day to opt out or object. Nine people opted out and three objected.
27 August 2026: the last day for anyone whose PSN account is closed or deactivated to ask for a cheque instead. 438 did.

If you missed both, you do not need to do anything. The credit, if you are owed it, lands in your wallet.

What to do

Keep the PSN account open that bought the games. The cheque route for closed accounts has shut.
Be wary of anything asking for payment details to release it. The notice says there is no claim form, so a request like that is not part of this settlement’s process as the documents describe it.
Questions go to the administrator: the PSN Digital Games Settlement helpline on 877-777-9145.

Store credit is a fitting remedy for a store whose terms say you never owned the games in the first place. And if the case has you adding up what a console really costs, we did that in what a console costs after you buy it.

How we researched this

No one at bitcritiq has handled this product. Everything here comes from published sources, listed below.

What this cannot tell you: Nobody can yet say what a particular account will receive, because that depends on how many qualifying purchases it made, which only Sony's records show, and on what the court approves in fees and costs. No payout date exists: it depends on the 15 October hearing and on whether anyone appeals. We found no public statement from Sony beyond its denial in the court papers.

How we chose this, and what we did

Why this subject: CNET published a how-to-claim guide for the Sony settlement on 16 September. The settlement's own documents say there is nothing to claim, the money is not split equally, and the deductions are larger than a quarter. A reader acting on the how-to version would go looking for a form that does not exist.
How we looked at it: Every figure and date is from the court-appointed administrator's site, psndigitalgamessettlement.com, run by A.B. Data, and from the court filings it hosts: the long-form notice of 24 April 2026, the plan of allocation, the settlement agreement, the order granting preliminary approval of 8 April 2026, and the motions for fees and for final approval. All were read in full on 17 September 2026. The per-account range is the filings' own estimate.

What this rests on

6 claims, all official. Nothing here was measured by bitcritiq — see how we test for why. Open a claim to read the source it came from.

There is no claim form: Sony credits eligible PSN account wallets directly.Official
The long-form notice says 'There will be no claim form to complete because SIE will directly distribute the Settlement Amount' to PSN account wallets. The final-approval motion says 'There is no claims process in this case.' No link on the settlement site's home, notice, FAQ, court documents or contact pages leads to a claim form.
Credit is divided in proportion to each account's number of qualifying purchases, not equally.Official
The plan of allocation sets each share with a numerator of 'the applicable number of Qualifying Purchases for that Eligible Claimant' over the total of all qualifying purchases.
The filings estimate $0.91 to $33.66 per eligible account, with an average of about $1.14.Official
The motion for preliminary approval: 'The estimated range of recovery for each eligible account is $0.91 to $33.66 dollars ... The average recovery is estimated to be $1.14.' The court's order calls the recovery for each class member 'quite low'.
Eligible buyers are in the US and bought a listed game through the PlayStation Store between 1 April 2019 and 31 December 2023; about 4.4 million accounts qualify.Official
The notice defines the class as persons in the United States who purchased qualifying games through the PlayStation Store in that period, and the settlement FAQ points to a published list of eligible games. The preliminary approval order counts 'approximately 4,407,533 eligible class member PSN accounts.'
Class counsel asks for $1,962,500 in fees, 25% of the fund, plus $625,067.77 in expenses, before anything is shared out.Official
The fees motion requests '$1,962,500.00 or twenty-five percent of the $7,850,000 Settlement Amount' and 'reimbursement of $625,067.77 in expenses', plus service awards. None has been approved.
The final approval hearing is on 15 October 2026, and credits go out within five business days of the settlement becoming final.Official
The settlement site: 'The Fairness Hearing is scheduled for October 15, 2026, at 2:00 p.m.' The second revised agreement has Sony distributing 'within five (5) business days after the later of: (i) the Settlement becoming Final or (ii) July 1, 2026.'