| Ail said: They ask for PC experience and networking experience typically. PS3 development is very similar to PC development and actually is often done on the PC. ( PS3 software is compiled with gcc, much closer to PC developement that the PS2 was with all the assembly code a lot of games contained). Same for 360 development ( even closer to PC).
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Actually, developing for the PS3 is about as far from developing for a PC as you can get ...
The fact that they develop PS3 (Wii, Nintendo DS, PSP, PS2, and XBox 360) games on the PC is because it is far easier for a developer to see how their project is progressing on a PC then it is to create a deploy to your development kit 24 times in a day. Certainly, the handful of developers who are working on the core of the game engine will work almost exclusively on porting your more generic engine for your specific platform, and your project will be tested on a very regular basis (at the end of each iteration) on each of the target platfomrs, but this is by far the minority of work being done.
The truth of the matter is that major developers and publishers are looking for people with experience with all levels of hardware (including the primitive Gameboy and GBA) because of the constant increase in the number of target platforms; publishers who are interested in cell phone (or iPhone) gaming are probably far more interested in someone with experience in (non-game related) embedded development than they're interested in someone with experience on the PS3.
Beyond that there are many developers really dislike PS3 and XBox 360 development because almost all work as a programmer on these projects is very specialized work; they look for scripters, network engineers, shader programmers, tool developers, physics engine developers, or 3d engine developers. On a project for the Nintendo DS (as an example) you're not going to have dozens of programmers so you're far more likely to be involved with a much larger portion of the project and see a lot more variety in the work you do.
