There's no official price for Nintendo's 3DS yet, but we do know a bit more that could help us land a closer guess. A VentureBeat interview with Nintendo president Satoru Iwata tells us that they won't be selling the console for less than production cost. Of course. But it also says that the production price for the 3DS is more than the DS. Of course.
"What I can confirm is that, in terms of the production costs, it will cost more than the costs for the Nintendo DS today," he said.
Put those together and you can get a rough idea. The original DS was $150 at launch. How much do you think the addition of a spanking new 3D screen tech is going to add to that? that's not even counting the 3 cameras, accelerometers and bump in processing power.
Iwata said "we believe we will produce enough value worthy of the production cost." So, how much is this thing worth to you? $250? $200? $169.99?
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1:00 PM on 06.21.2010 | 
Because they haven't ever had to before. There is still a chance of the 3DS failing (though clearly not much of one) and if they make sure they make a profit on units sold, that greatly lowers their risk.
Anyways, this could go for up to 200 and be an absolutely gigantic, world changing device. Launching it for more than that risks the enormity of the potential of the product.
Of course, even it is makes it over the 200 mark I am still going to buy myself one.
I'm thinking $199.99 as well, and from the looks of it anything over that is the point at which people will reconsider purchasing one.
Course I'm gonna buy one regardless. 3D STAR FOX!!!!!!!
Make it a multi-functional device, and give me a digital audio output and i'll pay $500. That is my dream, a portable device capable of going through a portable dac/amp for portable music. Plus awesome gaming, and video functionality. It is a pipe dream I know ;)
Then again, I'm getting an iPad at about $600 - so...
How do I think that? Well, for one, I think they are making at least $50 profit off of every DS, including DSi and DSXL. I think the 3DS costs $100 to make, and then add their $50 profit. At most I think it will cost $170, but I don't see that happening.
$199.99 would get a lot of people to buy it but it seems too low for it.
$229.99 - I could see it around that price. Not too steep and not too low.
$249.99 might turn some people off (but then again it's Nintendo and a lot of people have faith in the company) because it's a portable at that price. (yea, Sony did this though, I can't remember but I think that was the PSP price)
Also parentheses errors in my post I'm sure...
Not sure if you guys own smart phones or iPod Touches/iPads/whatnot, but those devices have got away with being $200+ for a while now.
I'm guessing it's gonna be around there