Why pay $299 US Dollars for Pro license Virtualdj 2020 when the $149 DEX 3 Pro is far superior?

I agree. I recently bought DEX 3 Pro and love it. Virtual DJ is a great program also but is way over priced at $300.

They are working on their own remote request system and scroller with the remote request system taking first importance. Hopefully it's way better than ask the DJ.

Why pay $299 US Dollars for Pro license Virtualdj 2020 when the $149 DEX 3 Pro is far superior?

Why pay $149 US Dollars for DEX 3 Pro when Mixxx and OpenKJ is $0?

1) it's easier to add new songs on the fly. 2 DEX does both DJ and karaoke . 3 DEX plays all of my DJ files, audio and video. Mixx only plays audio. I use DEX for gigs that require better mixing of the DJ music and OpenKJ for basic karaoke gigs where I can get away with just playing the songs back to back.
4 either way I only need to run a single player software for my needs. The only other software that I have to use is file explorer with OpenKJ and OpenKJ Songbook with DEX. I will be doing my buy on the fly downloading on a separate computer.

Understand. However, for those you who don't need video, Mixxx is currently field testing a Public Beta of Version 2.3 that has a number of significant improvements, and is pretty bug free at this time -
https://mixxx.org/news/2020-06-07-mixxx-2-3-beta-released/

PCDJ DEX 3 and Virtual DJ are both the best DJ software out there. The others, including the one you mention, are toys. If you're a professional, and you only want the best, you're going to use one of the two listed in the opening sentence. If you're a cheap SOB or don't care about quality, then you might use the others.

But, even PCDJ and Virtual DJ both have home versions that are free that blow away what you're pushing.

PCDJ DEX 3 and Virtual DJ are both the best DJ software out there. The others, including the one you mention, are toys. If you're a professional, and you only want the best, you're going to use one of the two listed in the opening sentence. If you're a cheap SOB or don't care about quality, then you might use the others.

Professionals are either going to use dedicated CDJ hardware or the will use Serato (strong mobile DJ presence), Rekordbox (easy transition to CDJs), or Traktor (people invested in that ecosystem) in conjunction with a DJ controller that has first party support for one of those apps.

PCDJ DEX 3 and Virtual DJ are not widely used by professional DJs.

Mixxx is a viable alternative that is more capable than many entry-level programs like Serato Lite.

used them both, used DEX when i first started actually.
both are good for DJ but not for karaoke. they can PLAY karaoke fine, but are missing too many features i use every day.

To that I say bs. The only professionals in my area that I know either use DEX or Virtualdj. I have yet to see any of the other software in use.

All I care 3 is a program that is friendly to both karaoke and DJ applications.

Horses for Courses. Too often a Jack of All Trades app becomes too buggy and unstable, a criticism I have heard about PCDJ DEX's versions that will play mp4's.

Nonetheless, for those who like that sort of thing, has anyone ever tried Virtual DJ Studio (not to be confused with VDJ) -
https://www.vdj.net/

I used an older version of it when I first started DJ'ing, it worked well with one glaring fault - it did not track songs played. Newer versions became much more Karaoke oriented, so I stopped using it for straight DJ'ing.

Video DJ Studio won't play most of my newer karaoke songs as I only buy mp4 files due to the fact that karaoke version mp4 files have better cues for singers to come in and Party Tyme mp3+g songs have no cues but their mp4 files do.

Virtual DJ & Karaoke Studio DOES play mp4 files. If you have no real experience with the program, that's fine - just say so.
https://www.vdj.net/screenshots.php