PlayStation 3 Refund: How To Claim Money After Class Action Lawsuit Gives Sony Console Owners Cash

After settling a six-year long class action lawsuit in June, Sony has set up a website where owners of its so-called "Fat" PlayStation 3 video game console can claim their share of the settlement. Customers, depending on when they purchased the popular console, could pull down as much as 55, the Associated Press reported Monday. The suit involved Sony's OtherOS feature, which allowed PS3 users to portion off part of the console's hard drive and install popular open-source operating system Linux, and the company's decision to nix the feature in a software update in April 2010. Customers claimed Sony violated the system's warranty and accused the Japanese company of false advertising. Now, after years of litigation, customers who bought the "Fat" PS3, the title given to the original and larger systems compared to later slimmer models, between Nov. 1, 2006, and April 1, 2010, are eligible for a piece of the settlement, TechTimes reported.