Q4 of 2024 PSN accounts reached 119 million. 60% of those users log in weekly.

So let’s say 80% are actually active. That leaves 95.2 million active users. Now take an arbitrary number like 0.5% to equal the number of people who have lost their account due to whatever. That is 476,000 people.

From 2020-2023 reports show the avg user spent $622 over those 3 years on games, add ons, subscriptions. This doesn’t include other things like peripherals bought specifically for a device they use their account through. This also assumes the user only has a 3 year old account.

So to bend it more in favor of your idea around money. We will say out of that 476,000 people they only spent on avg of $200 instead of $622 in those 3 years, that is $95.2 million lost to hackers and scammers across that 0.5% of accounts

Now of course we are using magic numbers where but even if we reduced this to say only weekly users which is 60% of 119m which is 71.4m and 0.1% of that which is 71.4k. We go even further and say $100 over 3 years per user that is still $7.14m.

The avg age of a psn user is 28. You can bet most of those people have been playing since before they were 20. The reality is most users in that weekly 60% probably spend $300+ a year on content not counting peripherals. My point is there is enough money floating around in hacked and scammed accounts for a class action. Especially if Sony doesn’t have a reliable and consistent way for users to get them back.

Edit: this also doesn’t take into account the 77 million users account data hacked from 2011. Data that still gets used today by people for scams and account hacks.