I don’t think they will restrict their own hardware – instead what I think they will do is keep making the “XDJ” line of products for all-in-one controllers (IE They only need music files on a drive to work), keep making the “CDJ” line for old-fashioned people and instead split their “Pro” controller line in 2 – using the “DDJ-S*” models to keep the Serato integration and work heavily on the integration between their “DDJ-R*” models and Recordbox DJ..
They won’t kill off their biggest selling department – they aren’t that stupid..
I don’t think Pioneer intends to take over the market – in fact, they would be frankly a little idiotic to think they could do that quickly at all – but what I think they want to be is the default “One solution for everything” company. They already make equipment which is in almost every DJ booth in the country (Either CDJ2000’s or controllers) and if they combine that with relatively cheap, decent software then they will have the market covered. And anyone who has tried to change from one software to another will know that it takes a lot of work – Once they have you, you’ll be stuck with it and as long as they keep up with the game and develop an identity it should take care of itself. Of course, that no one want’s to change will work against them for now…
Good luck to them.. I haven’t seen anything that would make me change yet though..
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