Sweetie-Belle

It also at one point was going to do without a GPU. It was originally planned the Cell Processor would handle everything.

But they scrapped that idea because developing games under that architecture would be horrendous.

Yep. Even then, the PS3 was still difficult to develop for. For example, Bethesda would release patches for Skyrim for PC and Xbox 360, but less for PS3 because it was so difficult to code for it. They essentially gave up on it and I don't blame them for it.