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Remembering Previous PlayStation Dev Kits

BY JOHN SANTINA: Some love the idea of the PS5 adopting the unique v-shape of its developer kit, while others dread the thought of making space under their TVs for it.

We’ve put together images of all previous PlayStation development kits to show the difference between the systems being used by developers and those that consumers ended up with.

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Jin_Sakai2293d ago (Edited 2293d ago )

The reason PS5 Dev Kits are V shaped is so they can be stacked during stress test and the cooling vents push hot air out the sides.

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cannon88002292d ago

Maybe that way it takes up less space?

2pacalypsenow2292d ago (Edited 2292d ago )

“The reason it's large and v-shaped is to make them more easily stackable for devs who are running multiple stress tests. “

S2Killinit2292d ago

Ah “multiple”, got it. I was just asking.

isarai2292d ago

They are often stacked, hell look at the pic posted above on the right, theres two dev kits stacked right there.

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UnholyLight2292d ago

I was just about to ask about this! Cool to get some insight into it. I don't know why we take so much stock into the devkit design. Like the article showed, almost never does the final product look ANYTHING like the Devkit except for the PS2. I did not know that about the PS2 and the design!

jcblade2292d ago

I remember wanting the PS2 dev kit so bad back in the day - I couldn't get my head around that it was just for devs and that there were no games to play on it. Idiot.

knifefight2292d ago

We all think stuff like that at some point. Back in like 1996, I thought that my school friend getting a CD burner meant we could all make copies of each other's games forever and ever.

lnfiniteLoop2292d ago

you could you just needed the right burner and a chipped machine... lol

nowitzki20042292d ago (Edited 2292d ago )

Back then we had much less information on how these things worked, had to read the right magazines or something lol. Today just google

Wasabi2292d ago (Edited 2292d ago )

Does anyone remember the Net Yaroze?

NY was a PlayStation dev kit available for sale to the public, aesthetically it looked like a standard PlayStation except it was black rather than light grey in colour, it was supplied with cables to connect to PC and development/debugging discs so users could develop and debug software they had written.

I remember my friend had one, I had the standard light grey model, I was very envious of his Net Yaroze mainly because it looked so damn cool in black.

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KeenBean3452292d ago

I always wanted one and still do, wish we got the same amount of colour variants for the ps1 that the ps2 got.

DarkZane2292d ago

Wow, none of them actually look like their final design.

Imortus_san2292d ago

I had a PSP Kit for a couple of months, bought it in the flee market, then sold it for some nice cash to crazy collectors.

MajorLazer2292d ago (Edited 2292d ago )

Nice. How much did you sell it for, if you don't mind me asking

Imortus_san2291d ago

Sold it for 500€, right about the time PS4 hit the stores.

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