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

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.

Not every settlement pays out on its own. Apple’s Siri settlement does the opposite of Sony’s: nothing is paid without a claim form, one per iPhone.