Expects them to be in line with current Nintendo DS prices.
At the recent investors' Q&A, Satoru Iwata mentioned that games for the Nintendo 3DS will be pretty much in line with the current price of Nintendo DS games.
He later went on to comment, "We don't believe that the world is in a state where high priced software will sell well, so we don't believe it will be in a price range too far off from current DS software."
In Japan, most new Nintendo DS software is priced at 5,040 yen (currently, about $60), while premium titles are priced at 5,980 yen ($71).
Despite the retail prices be roughly the same, Iwata expects development costs for some games to be far greater than the cost of developing a DS title.
In the same report, Iwata commented on opinions that the 3DS price was set too high at 25,000 yen ($300), saying that the system price was set by considering a number of factors, including the enthusiastic response at E3.