When they say "it won't appeal to PS4 fans", I think to myself "how do they know that"?
I mean even knowing what the system is, if they're getting 3rd party support from Activision, Warner Bros, Ubisoft, etc then it has to at least be around XB1 in performance and the whole ability to play both classic (but also new) Nintendo console games, along with staples like Pokemon and other previously and only handheld level games on one device could very well appeal to PS4 fans.
Personally I used to game mostly on Nintendo systems, sure I had an XBox, but it wasn't until PS3 that I got into the Playstation console or even handheld ecosystem.
At heart I'm a PS4 fan now, but a piece of me still wants Nintendo to make games for me and others like me.
If NX is a handheld around the XB1 in terms of performance, that has a good volume of solid exclusives then I'll be interested.
The only thing Nintendo really needs to do outside of making a system that is good value for money, is actually make some exclusives targeted towards the western 3rd party audience and market the system so that people know what it is and what it has to offer.
Sure a decent online network would also be very important, but really there are still a fair few PS4 fans that would happily buy a Nintendo system if it just had exclusives that appeal to them.
If anything when you look at PS4, it has games like Tearaway, Knack, Ratchet & Clank, others like Gravity Rush, The Last Guardian, Horizon, Ni No Kuni 2 and others on the way, which I would argue are to some degree similar to the style of stuff Nintendo makes.
Nintendo should be trying to target the PS4 fans, because they're the biggest audience of console gamers out there.
