Thank you for the quick replies. I suspected that the Dev license would open up critical resources for proper development, but there was not much information to explain this. Most of the articles and forum threads I found were from 2013 and 2014 which I assumed might be outdated/stale. I was hoping that UE4 would be a suitable test environment, but this is understandable considering the hardware is key. Do you know if Sony or Microsoft still ship test consoles for development and testing?
Thank you again for the info. It is greatly appreciated.