
This post only covers DEX development hardware as the other two are well covered on the wider web. The codenames for the different PS3 hardware is as follows: Similar to previous generations the hardware was split into Testing and Development hardware, each having different capabilities.

Unlike previous generations, Sony was the only provider of PS3 development hardware, so everyone needed the official development consoles in order to ship for the system.


This post covers the hardware used to develop Playstation 3 games by major studios back in the day, for the software side see the post on the Official PS3 SDK. Official PlayStation 3 Development Kit (Hardware) Edit on Github
