I agree many individual DJs don’t require or want the latest hardware, but some of them do. My roommate who’s been DJing even longer than I have and has toured the country was about to do a layaway thing for the CDJ-2000NXS2’s and I’m sure she will be thankful that it fell through now that there’s something else on the horizon. I’ve heard from a lot of people who want CDJs that they are worried about a new model. An up and coming female DJ acquaintance of mine I mentored and who used to come to open decks just bought the entire NXS2 system this past year and will probably not be happy since I believe she was worried about something like this coming up.
I certainly think this CDJ-3000 looks unavoidably like a follower to the point that it will hurt Pioneer DJ’s image as the industry standard. There was something to be said for them holding their ground with what they had. It’s a copycat thing that people are going to pick up on, and, assuming Prime ups its audio processing and QA (cough, hire some 6 sigma black belts or something) games soon, I think many people are going to look at the CDJ-3000 and be reminded of Prime and then look at their checking account during COVID-19 and be a little more likely to go for Prime. If Pioneer had simply updated their firmwares slightly for their entire legacy line, their status would probably hold up better.