Two-hundred and forty nine US dollars

Or actually, why not wait til both the PSP2 and 3DS are on the market? That way, we'll see actual competition, and prices might have a chance to fluctuate on either sides. This can be advantageous to a lot of people (or not, depending on how you spend your money and how your tastes in game genres varies from one another).

yeh nintendo isn't notourious for pricing independently.