also makes me wonder if they got into liquid capital problems and needed to generate some cash. for all we know the s4 could have run into major production problems and required a much larger influx of cash than they were initually prepared to handle.
to answer your question, yes NI will come up with a new traktor version, which will implement the sample decks of the TproS4 soft. probably will come out in feb..
I was just browsing around the NI products and ran across this:
“In the near future, S4 users will have the option to connect their preferred analog turntables or CDJs to control pitch, scratching, and transport functions for the S4 software. External timecode control via TRAKTOR SCRATCH will open up even more opportunities for creative mixing, fusing the already advanced features of the S4 with the full expressiveness of the traditional turntable / CDJ approach.”