Just because PlayStation customers “purchased” video games on the console doesn’t mean they actually own the games, or so says the gaming console’s parent company, Sony.
The Japan-based electronics, movie, and gaming giant is facing a class action lawsuit filed in California’s Northern District Court in June, in which four customers allege that the technology giant did not properly disclose that paying for a downloadable game does not grant permanent ownership or access to it. The lawsuit claims Sony’s disclosures violate a 2024 California law AB 2426 requiring a warning that “states in plain language that ‘buying’ or ‘purchasing’ the digital good is a license.”
