Moin @Aquadics ,
Are you really sure? Hot cue buttons (not the cue button) are my most prefered features (same ranking as some others). I can’t have enough of them 
Brgds from HAM BeatMaster
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It’s a shame that more people won’t get behind the idea of an endless rotary pitch control
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Ehm so his major secret clickbait is the NFC?
Questioning the need for WiFi is understandable, but that goes for an NFC as well. Unless the 3000X is a printer or coffee machine. 
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We use NFC to get into our footy ground now Reese…. Football is nearly as expensive as a CDJ these days too 
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$3000 … that is so utterly utterly expensive … and it’s just one deck, one layer … $6000 for a pair of these, an exorbitant price …
I’d rather get myself a Jupiter-X and a Juno-X and feel like the elf-queen of cyber wave electro in the temple of boom …
Imagine Denon DJ announcing the SC7000 at a conference in a few weeks, with a super-powerful processor capable of high-quality, real-time stem separation, 12GB of RAM, Wifi 7, internal NVME SSD bay, and a built-in loop sampler mode on the second layer. Simply present a short video demonstrating the new features. After the video, the product manager takes the stage, grabs the microphone, and simply gives us a “PlayStation” by saying “€/$ 1,999,” dropping the microphone, and walking away.
It would be simply epic.
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let me dream! 
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I have both Technics 1210 MK2 and MK5 decks. And the MK7 are just very nice turntables. I wouldn’t swap an old MK2 turntable for a MK7, I’d rather get my old friend serviced … and I would never part with my MK5 decks, I love them so much! 
If I were starting fresh today with vinyl, though, I’d probably go for the MK7. They’re nice decks, and all the bad stuff written about them just isn’t true. At a gig I’d take a pair of new MK7s any day over unserviced, beer-soaked MK2s with rotting slipmats and burnt-out lamps. In the past two years I’ve had several unpleasant moments with old Technics decks that should have lasted a lifetime …
At the moment, there seems to be a market for old Technics 1210 MK2 turntables, but on the inside they are sometimes pieced together with components from several different models. We call them Frankenstein decks … without knowing exactly what I’d get, I wouldn’t buy old Technics turntables online, and rather go for something built this century.
The MK7 has some features that the MK2 does not have: pitch reset, reverse spin, a pitch that goes up to 16%, and you can play 78RPM records, … sure, nothing groundbreaking, you can find these features on other modern turntables as well …
The one thing that matters a lot to me about turntables is how they feel. I’m not a scratching DJ and I don’t like turntables with torque so high it rips my fingers apart … vinyl DJing is a haptic experience (something that I miss when DJing on Pioneer DJ gear) … and if you find a turntable that feels just right, then this is probably going to be your friend for the next decades.
And coming back to the topic of the thread: Maybe the new CDJ-3000 X decks do feel nice? I find it hard to imagine … but if anyone really likes them and likes them so much better than all the other players, who am I to judge? Go for it! 
I’ve been exclusively using SD cards for over 10 years. Both Denon DJ and AlphaTheta/Pioneer DJ gear. Obviously, I have redundancies in my bag (2X USB Flashdrives, a 1TB NVME SSD, and 2 more SD cards) but I always prefer to use SD cards when playing out. I find them extremely reliable, and even faster browse/load times compared to flashdrives.
The exclusion of SD drive is a dealbreaker for me, and has me VERY confident that I won’t be updating to the 3000X. Not to mention the $500 increase for what amounts to an inch larger screen.
Any news on an SC6000/M upgrade?
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For real-time Stems rendering, Rockchip RK3588 might be sufficient. Maybe 
This would actually be clever for the Prime Go.
For sure - an endless rotary for Pitch would solve a few “issues” such as “Soft takeover” and pitch resolution (tiny tiny steps of pitch increment at any pitch range) and of course, how much space is physically taken up on the front panel.
But…. DJs are a slow bunch to accept “Change” or difference or radical deviation from “how it’s always been darnit !” In some cases and no manufacturer wants to make that leap.
perhaps InMusic should offer a firmware upgrade feature on existing models where an endless rotary control can be made to control pitch in a menu - controlled user option and see how people react to it… get people’s mindsets used to the idea.
the control on its own could change pitch value by 0.001 of a percent , but holding shift key while turning pitch control could offer 10x or 50x changes etc
Tbf I don’t see any reason for a 3000 owner to even look at an incremental upgrade, unless there is going to be some radical software changes we don’t know about yet.
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Im 8 minutes in and honestly this is ridiculous, who signed off the USB-C port on the top? looks flimsy as hell with a drive attached. The branding is funny too, brand snobs are going to be raging, they’ll have to start buying gaudy Gucci T-Shirts and gold watches to flaunt their wealth.
I cant wait for the rabid defence of it by the blinkered.
Edit: the global tag list is a very good feature, thats definitely useful.
Quite striking (and questionable) how much time those major “DJ channels” dedicate to cover this lukewarm upgrade, compared to other product releases, while defending various questionable aspects.
Oh, the SD slot got removed, where you could keep your SD card inserted safely - but if I think about it, hmmm I am fine with that, and didn’t encounter fellow DJs who use SD cards anyway. – Seriously, Mojaxx?
3000 bucks per deck is just insanity. Still no Stems, or Dual Layer… or Day Mode, Ableton Link, Sampler, etc… or a safety popup message when accidentally switching off the unit… not even the basics work as you would expect from a “pro” device.
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Thank you @STU-C for sharing the video.
There is a lot of functionality we are already used to. But if anybody could word a good feature request for the link-cue functionality (at around 26minutes in) I would free up one of my votes to vote for it.
And the on-screen switch from stutter to play on the hot cues seem nice. Not wasting one of my precious votes on that, but I’d love to see that as well.