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Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC filed a motion to dismiss late last week arguing that the plaintiff class of PlayStation Store video game purchasers
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May 6, 2021
On Wednesday, a consumer filed a class-action complaint in the Northern District of California against Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC alleging that Sony violated antitrust and unfair competition laws through its purported monopolization of the digital video games on the PlayStation Store.
According to the complaint, the plaintiff “brings this action on behalf of himself and all other similarly situated Class members who purchased digital video games on Sony’s PlayStation Store (the ‘Class’) between April 1, 2019 and the present.”
The plaintiff claimed that “Sony manufactures PlayStation, a line of video game consoles that launched in 1994 and has become one of the most popular video game systems in the world.” Reportedly, Sony has used the popularity of PlayStation to “build PlayStation into a multinational and multifaceted digital entertainment brand,” including the PlayStation Store, PlayStation Network, PlayStation Now, P